The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 75
Like a destroying flood they invaded the farmhouse, breaking down the doors, overturning the tables and benches, filling every room with their horrid presence.
Who acts: jaws · What happens: destroy, invade, break down, overturn, fill · To what, where: farmhouse, doors, tables, room
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jaws), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 flood | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flood | det |
| 3 | destroying | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 flood | amod |
| 4 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invaded | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 invaded | nsubj |
| 6 | invaded | invade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farmhouse | det |
| 8 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invaded | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 breaking | punct |
| 10 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 invaded | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 doors | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 doors | det |
| 13 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 breaking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 overturning | punct |
| 15 | overturning | overturn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 breaking | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tables | det |
| 17 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 overturning | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 benches | cc |
| 19 | benches | bench | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tables | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 filling | punct |
| 21 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 overturning | conj |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 room | det |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filling | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 presence | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 presence | nmod:poss |
| 26 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 presence | amod |
| 27 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 invaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | gerund | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | invade | past | jaws = jaw | the farmhouse | like a destroying flood | tree rules | |||
| 3 | break down | gerund | jaws = jaw not said here | the doors | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 4 | overturn | gerund | jaws = jaw not said here | the tables and benches | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fill | gerund | jaws = jaw not said here | every room | with jaws's horrid presence | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with presence=Instrument |
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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