The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 81
Even the gardens and the fields were overrun and trampled into worthlessness.
What happens: overrun, trample · To what, where: gardens, worthlessness
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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 gardens | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gardens | det |
| 3 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 overrun | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fields | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fields | det |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gardens | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 overrun | aux:pass |
| 8 | overrun | overrun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 trampled | cc |
| 10 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 overrun | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 worthlessness | case |
| 12 | worthlessness | worthlessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trampled | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 overrun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overrun | past · passive | the gardens and the fields | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | trample | participle | worthlessness | 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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