The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 34
But the Sampo stood in its place unmoved, grinding and turning without cessation.
Who acts: Sampo · What happens: stand, grind, turn · To what, where: place
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 (Sampo), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sampo | det |
| 3 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | unmoved | unmoved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grinding | punct |
| 10 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turning | cc |
| 12 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 grinding | conj |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 cessation | case |
| 14 | cessation | cessation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turning | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Sampo | strength's place | unmoved property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | |||
| 2 | grind | gerund | the Sampo not said here | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | the Sampo not said here | without cessation | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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