The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 21
Yes, for two days and two long, silent nights he sat in the sledge and drove onward with no slackening of speed—so impatient was he to reach his dear home land, to behold his own fireside.
Who acts: Minstrel, two days · What happens: sit, drive, be, behold, slacken · To what, where: two long silent nights, sledge, own fireside, speed
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 (Minstrel, two days), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 days | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 days | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 reach | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nights | cc |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 nights | nummod |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nights | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 10 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nights | amod |
| 11 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 days | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sat | nsubj |
| 13 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nights | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sledge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sledge | det |
| 16 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drove | cc |
| 18 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sat | conj |
| 19 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 18 drove | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 slackening | case |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 slackening | det |
| 22 | slackening | slackening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drove | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 speed | case |
| 24 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slackening | nmod |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 reach | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 impatient | advmod |
| 27 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 reach | obj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 reach | cop |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 reach | nsubj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 reach | mark |
| 31 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 land | nmod:poss |
| 33 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 land | amod |
| 34 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 land | compound |
| 35 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 reach | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 behold | punct |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 behold | mark |
| 38 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 reach | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 fireside | nmod:poss |
| 40 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fireside | amod |
| 41 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 behold | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Minstrel | two long silent nights not said here | the sledge | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent night=Theme in sledge=Location | |||
| 2 | drive | past | Minstrel not said here | with no slackening of speed; onward property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | two days and two long silent nights | Minstrel nsubj; Minstrel's dear home land obj; reach property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | behold | to-infinitive | two days and two long silent nights not said here | Minstrel's own fireside | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fireside=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | slacken | speed | nom slackening «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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