The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 80
Women and men, children, birds and fowls, dogs and horses, all perished.
What happens: perish · To what, where: Women
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: 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 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 men | cc |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Women | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Women | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 birds | punct |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Women | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fowls | cc |
| 9 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Women | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dogs | punct |
| 11 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Women | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 horses | cc |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Women | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 perished | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 perished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | participle · passive | Women and men and children and birds and fowls and dogs and horses | tree rules |
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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