The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 59

He drove the milk cows to the meadow pastures where the grass was tall and green, but the oxen and the younger cattle he allowed to wander as they would in the open fields or the marshy thickets.

Who acts: boy, grass, younger cattle · What happens: drive, pasture, be, allow, wander · To what, where: milk cows, oxen, younger cattle

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 (boy, grass, younger cattle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cows	det
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cows	compound
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drove	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 meadow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meadow	det
8	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pastures	obl
9	pastures	pasture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	parataxis
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 tall	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grass	det
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tall	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tall	cop
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pastures	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 green	cc
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tall	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 oxen	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 oxen	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 oxen	det
20	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pastures	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cattle	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cattle	det
23	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 cattle	amod
24	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 oxen	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 allowed	nsubj
26	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cattle	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 wander	mark
28	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 allowed	xcomp
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 would	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 would	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 wander	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 fields	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fields	det
34	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fields	amod
35	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 would	obl
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 thickets	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 thickets	det
38	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 thickets	amod
39	thickets	thicket	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fields	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drive	past	boy	the milk cows		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
2	pasture	present		the oxen and the younger cattle	to the meadow	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the grass		tall property	tree rules
4	be		the grass not said here			tree rules
5	allow	past	boy	the younger cattle not said here		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer cattle=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	wander not said to happen	to-infinitive	the younger cattle not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 59

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 59