The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 151
The sun was still above the hills when he drove the herd into the farmyard.
Who acts: sun · What happens: be, drive · To what, where: hills, herd, farmyard
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hills | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hills | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 hills | advmod |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 7 hills | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hills | det |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 drove | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drove | nsubj |
| 10 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hills | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 herd | det |
| 12 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drove | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 farmyard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 farmyard | det |
| 15 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drove | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hills | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | the hills | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drive | past | sun | the herd | the farmyard | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herd=Theme into farmyard=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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