The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 106
She dived deep down into the water and there she found the tear-drops lying on the black ooze at the bottom.
Who acts: spinning, tear drops · What happens: dive, find, lie · To what, where: water, tear drops, black ooze
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 (spinning, tear drops), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dived | nsubj |
| 2 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 4 down | advmod |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 dived | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dived | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 found | expl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dived | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 drops | det |
| 13 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drops | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 tear | punct |
| 15 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | obj |
| 16 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 drops | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ooze | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ooze | det |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ooze | amod |
| 20 | ooze | ooze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lying | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 bottom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bottom | det |
| 23 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lying | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | past | spinning | the water | down property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | spinning | the tear drops | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Topic | |||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the tear drops not said here | the black ooze | at the bottom | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ooze=Location |
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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