The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 52
Drive the oxen and the yearlings to the woodlands; let them browse among the bushes and lie down in shady places.
Who acts: you, oxen · What happens: drive, let, browse, lie down · To what, where: oxen, shady places
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, oxen), 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 oxen | det |
| 3 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drive | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 yearlings | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 yearlings | det |
| 6 | yearlings | yearling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 oxen | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 woodlands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woodlands | det |
| 9 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 yearlings | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Drive | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | browse | browse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 bushes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bushes | det |
| 16 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 browse | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lie | cc |
| 18 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 lie | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 places | case |
| 21 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 places | amod |
| 22 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lie | obl |
| 23 | . | . | 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 oxen and the yearlings to the woodlands | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme ox=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | oxen = ox | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | browse | infinitive | oxen = ox not said here | among the bushes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie down | infinitive | shady places | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
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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