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title: His magic sledge is glowing bright and golden as the sun. Six yellow… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: His magic sledge is glowing bright and golden as the sun. Six yellow birds sit on his shafts sweetly singing, and of bluebirds there are seven perched gayly on the dashboard. Who acts: magic sledge, Six yellow birds, shafts, seven. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James B
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 64

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His magic sledge is glowing bright and golden as the sun. Six yellow birds sit on his shafts sweetly singing, and of bluebirds there are seven perched gayly on the dashboard.

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**Who acts:** magic sledge, Six yellow birds, shafts, seven · **What happens:** glow, sit, sing, be, perch · **To what, where:** sun., shafts, dashboard

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic sledge, Six yellow birds, shafts, seven), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:27:64
# text = His magic sledge is glowing bright and golden as the sun. Six yellow birds sit on his shafts sweetly singing, and of bluebirds there are seven perched gayly on the dashboard.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	shafts	shaft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bluebirds	bluebird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
28	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	gayly	gayly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dashboard	dashboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | present · progressive | bridegroom's magic sledge |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | present | Six yellow birds | the sun. *not said here* |  | bridegroom's shafts |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent sun.=Theme on shaft=Location |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | bridegroom's shafts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sweetly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | present | seven |  |  | there |  | of bluebirds | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **perch** | participle |  |  |  | the dashboard |  | gayly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on dashboard=Location |

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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.

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**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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