The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 55

The soil draws richness from it, the fields of grain thrive upon its grindings, the fruit trees send their roots downward and suck up the wealth which it pours out.”

Who acts: soil, fields, fruit trees, wealth · What happens: draw, thrive, send, suck up, pour out · To what, where: richness, lid, grindings, roots, wealth

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 (soil, fields, fruit trees, wealth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soil	det
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draws	nsubj
3	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	richness	richness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draws	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 draws	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thrive	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fields	det
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thrive	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 grain	case
11	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fields	nmod
12	thrive	thrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 draws	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 grindings	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 grindings	nmod:poss
15	grindings	grinding	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thrive	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 send	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trees	compound
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 send	nsubj
20	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 draws	parataxis
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 roots	nmod:poss
22	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 send	obj
23	downward	downward	ADV	_	20 send	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 suck	cc
25	suck	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 send	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 suck	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wealth	det
28	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 suck	obj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 pours	nsubj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pours	nsubj
31	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 wealth	acl:relcl
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 pours	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 draws	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 draws	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	present	the soil	richness	lid		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent richness=Theme from it=Initial_Location
2	thrive	present	the fields of grain		lid's grindings		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon grinding=Location
3	send	present	the fruit trees	trees's roots		downward property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme
4	suck up	present	the fruit trees not said here	the wealth			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wealth=Source
5	pour out	present	the wealth			lid nsubj	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 55

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 55