The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 111
While we were all drowned in slumber they broke into the cavern beneath the copper mountain, they drew back the bolts and opened the mighty doors.
Who acts: men · What happens: drown, break, draw back, open · To what, where: we, slumber, cavern, bolts, mighty doors
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 drowned | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drowned | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 drowned | advmod |
| 5 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 broke | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 slumber | case |
| 7 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drowned | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 broke | nsubj |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 cavern | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cavern | det |
| 12 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obl |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 16 mountain | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 15 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mountain | compound |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drew | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drew | nsubj |
| 19 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 broke | parataxis |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 drew | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bolts | det |
| 22 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drew | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 opened | cc |
| 24 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 drew | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 doors | det |
| 26 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 doors | amod |
| 27 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 opened | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past · passive | we | slumber | all property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | break | past | men = man | the cavern | beneath the copper mountain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath mountain=Location | |||
| 3 | draw back | past | men = man | the bolts | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | past | men = man not said here | the mighty doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
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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