The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 55
Then he climbed into the sledge and sat down upon the furry robes; he shook the long reins and spoke gently to his steed.
Who acts: wizard · What happens: climb, sit down, shake, speak · To what, where: sledge, furry robes, long reins · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wizard), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 sledge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sledge | det |
| 6 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 sat | advmod |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 robes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 robes | det |
| 12 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 robes | amod |
| 13 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sat | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 shook | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shook | nsubj |
| 16 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reins | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 reins | amod |
| 19 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shook | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spoke | cc |
| 21 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shook | conj |
| 22 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 21 spoke | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 steed | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 steed | nmod:poss |
| 25 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spoke | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | wizard | the sledge | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sledge=Destination | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | wizard not said here | the furry robes | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon robe=Location | |||
| 3 | shake | past | wizard | the long reins | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rein=Patient | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | wizard not said here | to wizard's steed; gently property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to steed=Co-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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