The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 2
In his sledge, the Minstrel sat upright and deftly handled the whip and the reins.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: sit, handle · To what, where: sledge, whip
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 (Minstrel), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 sledge | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sledge | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Minstrel | det |
| 6 | Minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 7 sat | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 handled | cc |
| 10 | deftly | deftly | ADV | _ | 11 handled | advmod |
| 11 | handled | handle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 whip | det |
| 13 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 handled | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reins | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 reins | det |
| 16 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 whip | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Minstrel | star's sledge | upright property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sledge=Location | |||
| 2 | handle | past | the Minstrel not said here | the whip and the reins | deftly property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=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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