The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 7
Presently the Graybeard’s son brought the red reindeer to the door and harnessed it to the birchwood sledge.
Who acts: son · What happens: bring, harness · To what, where: red reindeer, door, reindeer
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 (son), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 6 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Graybeard | det |
| 3 | Graybeard | Graybeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Graybeard | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reindeer | det |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reindeer | amod |
| 9 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 harnessed | cc |
| 14 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 harnessed | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 sledge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sledge | det |
| 18 | birchwood | birchwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sledge | compound |
| 19 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 harnessed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the Graybeard's son | the red reindeer | the door | presently property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme to door=Destination | ||
| 2 | harness | past | the Graybeard's son not said here | reindeer | to the birchwood sledge | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to sledge=Co-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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