The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 68
Then the heroes leaped from their horses, turning them loose to wander free among the sand-hills.
Who acts: heroes · What happens: leap, turn, wander · To what, where: heroes
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 (heroes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 leaped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heroes | det |
| 3 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leaped | nsubj |
| 4 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 horses | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leaped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 leaped | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turning | obj |
| 11 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 turning | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 wander | mark |
| 13 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 loose | xcomp |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wander | xcomp |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 hills | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hills | det |
| 17 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hills | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sand | punct |
| 19 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 free | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | the heroes | then | from heroes's horses | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | the heroes not said here | heroes = hero | loose property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | wander | to-infinitive | the heroes not said here | free property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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