The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 19
Through fens and woodlands, across the meadows and the moorlands, the red reindeer rushed unwearied, never pausing to rest, never thinking of food.
Who acts: red reindeer · What happens: rush, not pause, rest, not think · To what, where: fens
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: who acts (red reindeer), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 2 fens | case |
| 2 | fens | fen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rushed | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 woodlands | cc |
| 4 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fens | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 meadows | punct |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 meadows | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 meadows | det |
| 8 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fens | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 moorlands | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moorlands | det |
| 11 | moorlands | moorland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fens | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fens | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 reindeer | det |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reindeer | amod |
| 15 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rushed | nsubj |
| 16 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | unwearied | unwearied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rushed | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pausing | punct |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 pausing | advmod |
| 20 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 rushed | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 rest | mark |
| 22 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 pausing | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thinking | punct |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 thinking | advmod |
| 25 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 pausing | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 food | case |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thinking | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the red reindeer | fens and woodlands and the meadows and the moorlands | unwearied property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fen=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not pause | gerund | the red reindeer not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | the red reindeer not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not think speech: other | gerund | the red reindeer not said here | of food | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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