The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 35
They mounted and rode through the woods, the Minstrel going first with his great sword drawn.
Who acts: steeds, Minstrel · What happens: mount, ride, go, draw · To what, where: woods, great sword
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, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rode | cc |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | conj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 woods | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woods | det |
| 7 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Minstrel | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Minstrel | det |
| 10 | Minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | parataxis |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Minstrel | acl |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 going | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 sword | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sword | nmod:poss |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sword | amod |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 17 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sword | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | steeds = steed | the Minstrel parataxis | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | steeds = steed not said here | the woods | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | with Minstrel's great sword; first property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with sword=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | draw | participle | Minstrel's great sword not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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