The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 34
With much labor they caught these beasts and bridled them, and upon their backs they threw rough blankets to serve in place of saddles.
Who acts: steeds · What happens: catch, bridle, throw, serve · To what, where: beasts, steeds, rough blankets, backs
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steeds), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 labor | case |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 labor | amod |
| 3 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 beasts | det |
| 7 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caught | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bridled | cc |
| 9 | bridled | bridle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bridled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 threw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 threw | cc |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 backs | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 backs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 threw | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 threw | nsubj |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 18 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 blankets | amod |
| 19 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 threw | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 serve | mark |
| 21 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 threw | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 serve | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 saddles | case |
| 25 | saddles | saddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 place | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | steeds = steed | this beasts | with much labor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | |||
| 2 | bridle | past | steeds = steed not said here | steeds = steed | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | steeds = steed | rough blankets | steeds's backs | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme upon back=Destination | |||
| 4 | serve | to-infinitive | steeds = steed not said here | in place of saddles | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in place=Attribute |
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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