The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 100
The fragments of the pictured cover had already been carried far away, were sailing like little ships across the vast expanse of the sea.
What happens: picture, carry, sail · To what, where: fragments, vast expanse
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fragments | det |
| 2 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cover | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cover | det |
| 5 | pictured | picture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cover | amod |
| 6 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fragments | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | aux |
| 8 | already | already | ADV | _ | 10 carried | advmod |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 carried | aux:pass |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 away | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 carried | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sailing | punct |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sailing | aux |
| 15 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 carried | advcl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 ships | case |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ships | amod |
| 18 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sailing | obl |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 expanse | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 expanse | det |
| 21 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 expanse | amod |
| 22 | expanse | expanse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sailing | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 expanse | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | participle | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | carry | past · perfect · passive | the fragments of the pictured cover | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sail | past · progressive | the vast expanse of the sea | like little ships | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across expanse=Trajectory |
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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