The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 17

As they drew near to the hill, however, they could hear the magic Sampo grinding, grinding in its darksome prison; they could hear the lid of many colors turning, turning, and pouring out wealth without cessation.

Who acts: maidens, magic, many colors · What happens: draw, hear, grind, turn, pour out · To what, where: hill, magic, darksome prison, lid, wealth

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 (maidens, magic, many colors), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 drew	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hear	advcl
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 hill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hill	det
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	13 hear	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 however	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drew	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 magic	det
15	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obj
16	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 magic	appos
17	grinding	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 hear	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grinding	punct
19	grinding	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 grinding	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 prison	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 prison	nmod:poss
22	darksome	darksome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 prison	amod
23	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grinding	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hear	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hear	aux
27	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lid	det
29	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hear	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 colors	case
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 colors	amod
32	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lid	nmod
33	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 colors	acl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 turning	punct
35	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 turning	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pouring	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 pouring	cc
38	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 turning	advcl
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 pouring	compound:prt
40	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pouring	obj
41	without	without	ADP	_	42 cessation	case
42	cessation	cessation	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pouring	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	maidens = maiden		the hill	near property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to hill=Destination
2	hear	could	maidens = maiden	the magic		however property	tree rules
3	grind	gerund	the magic not said here				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	grind	gerund	the magic not said here		hill's darksome prison		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	hear	could	maidens = maiden	the lid of many colors			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lid=Stimulus
6	turn	gerund	many colors not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	turn	gerund	many colors not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	pour out	gerund	many colors not said here	wealth		without cessation	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Patient

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 Flight, sentence 17