The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 5
In the sea the fishes had fled to other waters, leaving the fishermen to toil in vain.
Who acts: fishermen · What happens: flee, leave, toil · To what, where: fishes, sea, fishermen, vain
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishermen), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fled | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fishes | det |
| 5 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fled | aux |
| 7 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 waters | case |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 waters | amod |
| 10 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaving | punct |
| 12 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fled | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fishermen | det |
| 14 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 leaving | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 toil | mark |
| 16 | toil | toil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 leaving | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 vain | case |
| 18 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 toil | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past · perfect · passive | the fishes | the sea | to other waters | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the fishermen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | toil | to-infinitive | the fishermen not said here | vain | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=Trajectory |
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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