The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 1
All night the Minstrel rode wildly towards the South Country, never looking behind him, never pausing to rest.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: ride, not look, not pause, rest · To what, where: South Country
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Minstrel | det |
| 4 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 10 Country | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Country | det |
| 9 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Country | compound |
| 10 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looking | punct |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 looking | advmod |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rode | advcl |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pausing | punct |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 pausing | advmod |
| 18 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 looking | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rest | mark |
| 20 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 pausing | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the Minstrel | the South Country | night | wildly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards country=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | not look | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | behind Minstrel | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not pause | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rest | to-infinitive | the Minstrel not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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