The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 102

He leaped quickly overboard into the shallow water and with anxious haste began to gather up the few remaining pieces that were still floating around the vessel.

Who acts: treasure, few remaining pieces · What happens: leap, begin, gather up, float · To what, where: shallow water, few remaining pieces, vessel

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: who acts (treasure, few remaining pieces), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaped	nsubj
2	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 leaped	advmod
4	overboard	overboard	ADV	_	2 leaped	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
7	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaped	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 haste	case
11	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 haste	amod
12	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	obl
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 leaped	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 gather	mark
15	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 gather	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pieces	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pieces	amod
19	remaining	remaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pieces	amod
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gather	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 floating	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 floating	aux
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 floating	advmod
24	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 pieces	acl:relcl
25	around	around	ADP	_	27 vessel	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 vessel	det
27	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 floating	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leap	past	treasure		the shallow water		overboard, quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination
2	begin	past	treasure not said here				with anxious haste	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	gather up	to-infinitive	treasure not said here	the few remaining pieces				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
4	float	past · progressive	the few remaining pieces		the vessel	still		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around vessel=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 102