The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 114
Their strength forsook them and they sank, one by one, upon the ground, all overcome with weariness.
Who acts: strength, people, ground · What happens: forsake, sink, overcome · To what, where: people, one
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 (strength, people, ground), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 strength | nmod:poss |
| 2 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forsook | nsubj |
| 3 | forsook | forsake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forsook | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sank | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sank | nsubj |
| 7 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forsook | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sank | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ground | punct |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sank | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 overcome | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 overcome | advmod |
| 18 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ground | acl:relcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 weariness | case |
| 20 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 overcome | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forsook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | past | people's strength | people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sink | past | people | one | by one; upon the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||
| 3 | overcome | present | the ground not said here | with weariness | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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