The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 41
At this spot the Minstrel paused; he brought the reindeer to a sudden stop.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: pause, bring · To what, where: spot, reindeer, sudden stop
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 spot | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 spot | det |
| 3 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paused | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Minstrel | det |
| 5 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 paused | nsubj |
| 6 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 paused | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reindeer | det |
| 11 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 stop | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stop | det |
| 14 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stop | amod |
| 15 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | the Minstrel | this spot | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at spot=Location | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Minstrel | the reindeer | a sudden stop | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme to stop=Destination |
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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