The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 17
Swift as the wind the well-built sledge glided on its course.
What happens: build, glide · To what, where: built sledge, course
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 | Swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sledge | nsubj |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 wind | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Swift | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sledge | det |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 built | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sledge | amod |
| 9 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | glided | glide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sledge | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 course | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 course | nmod:poss |
| 13 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 glided | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sledge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | participle | well property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | glide | participle | the built sledge Swift as the wind not said here | Swift's course | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on course=Trajectory |
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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