The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 37
They rode slowly, for their horses were neither swift nor strong, and their eyes and ears were alert for every strange sight or unexpected sound.
Who acts: steeds, horses, eyes · What happens: ride, swift, be
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, horses, eyes), 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 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swift | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 swift | mark |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 swift | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 swift | aux |
| 9 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 swift | cc:preconj |
| 10 | swift | swift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rode | parataxis |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 strong | cc |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 swift | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 alert | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 alert | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 alert | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ears | cc |
| 18 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eyes | conj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 alert | cop |
| 20 | alert | alert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rode | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 sight | det |
| 23 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sight | amod |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 alert | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 sound | cc |
| 26 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sound | amod |
| 27 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sight | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | steeds = steed | slowly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | swift | past | steeds's horses | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | steeds's eyes and ears | for every strange sight or unexpected sound; alert property | tree rules |
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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