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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 100

They rolled like hailstones down upon his feet, they flowed in streams till they reached the margin of the sea, and there they fell tinkling and splashing into the sparkling water, down to the black ooze at the bottom.

Who acts: Tears · What happens: roll down, flow, reach, fall, tinkle, splash · To what, where: feet, streams, margin, sparkling water

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tears), 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

nsubjcaseobladvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjparataxiscaseoblmarknsubjadvcldetobjcasedetnmodpunctccexplnsubjconjxcompccconjcasedetamodoblpunctadvmodcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodpunctrootTheyPRONrolledVERBlikeADPhailstonesNOUNdownADVuponADPhisPRONfeetNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONflowedVERBinADPstreamsNOUNtillSCONJtheyPRONreachedVERBtheDETmarginNOUNofADPtheDETseaNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtherePRONtheyPRONfellVERBtinklingVERBandCCONJsplashingVERBintoADPtheDETsparklingADJwaterNOUN,PUNCTdownADVtoADPtheDETblackADJoozeNOUNatADPtheDETbottomNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 rollednsubj
2rolledrollVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3likelikeADP_4 hailstonescase
4hailstoneshailstoneNOUNNumber=Plur2 rolledobl
5downdownADV_2 rolledadvmod
6uponuponADP_8 feetcase
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 feetnmod:poss
8feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur2 rolledobl
9,,PUNCT_11 flowedpunct
10theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 flowednsubj
11flowedflowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 rolledparataxis
12ininADP_13 streamscase
13streamsstreamNOUNNumber=Plur11 flowedobl
14tilltillSCONJ_16 reachedmark
15theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs16 reachednsubj
16reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 flowedadvcl
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 margindet
18marginmarginNOUNNumber=Sing16 reachedobj
19ofofADP_21 seacase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 seadet
21seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing18 marginnmod
22,,PUNCT_26 fellpunct
23andandCCONJ_26 fellcc
24theretherePRONPronType=Dem26 fellexpl
25theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs26 fellnsubj
26fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 rolledconj
27tinklingtinkleVERBVerbForm=Ger26 fellxcomp
28andandCCONJ_29 splashingcc
29splashingsplashVERBVerbForm=Ger27 tinklingconj
30intointoADP_33 watercase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 waterdet
32sparklingsparklingADJDegree=Pos33 wateramod
33waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing29 splashingobl
34,,PUNCT_39 oozepunct
35downdownADV_39 oozeadvmod
36totoADP_39 oozecase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 oozedet
38blackblackADJDegree=Pos39 oozeamod
39oozeoozeNOUNNumber=Sing27 tinklingobl
40atatADP_42 bottomcase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 bottomdet
42bottombottomNOUNNumber=Sing39 oozenmod
43..PUNCT_2 rolledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1roll downpastTears = tearheart's feetlike hailstones; down propertyvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon foot=Trajectory
2flowpastTears = tearstreamsvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stream=Location
3reachpastTears = tearthe margin of the seavn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent margin=Theme
4fallpastTears = teartherevn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5tinklegerundTears = tear not said hereto the black ooze at the bottomvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6splashgerundTears = tear not said herethe sparkling watervn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into water=Destination

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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