The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 56
Slowly and thoughtfully, as one well contented with himself, he drove onward along the well-known pathway that led towards the village.
Who acts: wizard, known pathway · What happens: content, drive, know, lead · To what, where: one, known pathway, village
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, known pathway), 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 | Slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 contented | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thoughtfully | cc |
| 3 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 1 Slowly | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slowly | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 contented | mark |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 contented | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 contented | advmod |
| 8 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 contented | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drove | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drove | nsubj |
| 13 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 contented | conj |
| 14 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 13 drove | advmod |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 pathway | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pathway | det |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 known | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 well | punct |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 pathway | amod |
| 20 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drove | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 led | nsubj |
| 22 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pathway | acl:relcl |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 25 village | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 village | det |
| 25 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 led | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 contented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | content | participle · passive | one | with wizard; slowly, well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | drive | past | wizard | the known pathway | onward property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along pathway=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | lead | past | the known pathway | the village | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards village=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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