The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 51
Drive the milkers to the high meadows where the grass is green and sweet.
Who acts: you, grass · What happens: drive, be · To what, where: milkers, high meadows
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 (you, grass), 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 | Drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 milkers | det |
| 3 | milkers | milker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drive | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 meadows | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meadows | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 meadows | amod |
| 7 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drive | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 green | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grass | det |
| 10 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 green | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 green | cop |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 meadows | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sweet | cc |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 green | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | imperative | you not said here | the milkers | the high meadows | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent milker=Theme to meadow=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | present | the grass | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the grass not said here | tree rules |
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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