The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 16
The reindeer leaped forward; the journey was begun.
What happens: leap, begin · To what, where: reindeer
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reindeer | det |
| 2 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begun | nsubj |
| 3 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 reindeer | acl |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 leaped | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 begun | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begun | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 begun | aux:pass |
| 9 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 begun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | the reindeer not said here | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past · passive | the reindeer | the journey nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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