The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 1
Swiftly as a shooting star did the reindeer rush through the forest ways.
Who acts: shooting star, reindeer · What happens: do, rush · To what, where: forest ways
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shooting star, reindeer), 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 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 6 did | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 did | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 star | det |
| 4 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 star | compound |
| 5 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reindeer | det |
| 8 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rush | nsubj |
| 9 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | parataxis |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 ways | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ways | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ways | compound |
| 13 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rush | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | a shooting star | swiftly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rush | present | the reindeer | the forest ways | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through way=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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