The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 107
The serpents were lifted from their holes, they were torn in pieces, they were buried deep in the ground.
What happens: lift, tear, bury · To what, where: serpents, holes, pieces, ground
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 serpents | det |
| 2 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | aux:pass |
| 4 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 holes | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 holes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lifted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 torn | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 torn | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 torn | aux:pass |
| 11 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lifted | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pieces | case |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 torn | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 buried | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 buried | aux:pass |
| 17 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lifted | conj |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 17 buried | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buried | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past · passive | the serpents | serpents's holes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from hole=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tear | past · passive | serpents = serpent | pieces | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bury | past · passive | serpents = serpent | the ground | deep property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in ground=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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