The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 110
Thus the haunts of the serpents were broken up, and the field of dread was made fertile and safe, a fit place for trees to grow and grass to flourish.
Who acts: trees · What happens: break up, make, grow, flourish · To what, where: haunts, field
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: who acts (trees), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 broken | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 haunts | det |
| 3 | haunts | haunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 serpents | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 serpents | det |
| 6 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 haunts | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 broken | aux:pass |
| 8 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 broken | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 field | det |
| 13 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dread | case |
| 15 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 field | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 broken | conj |
| 18 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 made | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 safe | cc |
| 20 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fertile | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 place | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 23 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 place | amod |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 grow | mark |
| 26 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 grow | nsubj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 grow | mark |
| 28 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 place | acl:relcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 grass | cc |
| 30 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 grow | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 flourish | mark |
| 32 | flourish | flourish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 grow | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break up | past · passive | the haunts of the serpents | thus property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the field of dread | a fit place obl; fertile property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | trees | grass conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | flourish | to-infinitive | trees not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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