The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 40

Silently, without rustling a leaf or snapping a twig, they bore it across the fields and the meadows and placed it on board of their waiting vessel.

Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: rustle, snap, bear, place, wait · To what, where: leaf, twig, fields, board

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 (Ilmarinen), 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	Silently	silently	ADV	_	13 bore	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Silently	punct
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 rustling	mark
4	rustling	rustle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 bore	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leaf	det
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rustling	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 snapping	cc
8	snapping	snap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rustling	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 twig	det
10	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snapping	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rustling	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bore	nsubj
13	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bore	obj
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 fields	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fields	det
17	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bore	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 meadows	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 meadows	det
20	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fields	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 placed	cc
22	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bore	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 placed	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 board	case
25	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 placed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 vessel	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 vessel	nmod:poss
28	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 vessel	amod
29	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 board	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rustle	gerund	Ilmarinen not said here	a leaf			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme
2	snap	gerund	Ilmarinen not said here	a twig			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twig=Theme
3	bear	past	Ilmarinen	twig	the fields and the meadows	silently property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	place	past	Ilmarinen not said here	twig	board of Ilmarinen's waiting vessel		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on board=Destination
5	wait	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 40