The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 110
Then taking the pieces reverently in his hands, he planted them one by one in the ground, covering them deep in the rich soil of Wainola’s headland.
Who acts: treasure · What happens: take, plant, cover, soil · To what, where: pieces, root, headland
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 taking | advmod |
| 2 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 planted | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pieces | det |
| 4 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 taking | obj |
| 5 | reverently | reverently | ADV | _ | 2 taking | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reverently | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 taking | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 planted | nsubj |
| 11 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 planted | obj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 planted | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 covering | punct |
| 20 | covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 planted | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 covering | obj |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 20 covering | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 soil | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 soil | det |
| 25 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 soil | amod |
| 26 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 covering | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 headland | case |
| 28 | Wainola | Wainola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 headland | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Wainola | case |
| 30 | headland | headland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 soil | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | treasure not said here | the pieces | then | reverently property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||
| 2 | plant | past | treasure | root | one obj | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme one=Destination | |||
| 3 | cover | gerund | treasure not said here | root | in the rich soil of Wainola's headland; deep property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination in soil=Theme | |||
| 4 | soil | Wainola's headland | nom soil «state transitive»: of=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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