The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 112
For the small broken fragments of the Sampo took root and grew up quickly, producing great crops of rye and barley, and luscious fruits of all kinds, and other foods in great abundance.
What happens: take, grow up, produce · To what, where: root, great crops
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 fragments | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fragments | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fragments | amod |
| 4 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fragments | amod |
| 5 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Sampo | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sampo | det |
| 8 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 grew | compound:prt |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 grew | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 producing | punct |
| 16 | producing | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 grew | advcl |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crops | amod |
| 18 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 producing | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rye | case |
| 20 | rye | rye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crops | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 barley | cc |
| 22 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rye | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fruits | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fruits | cc |
| 25 | luscious | luscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fruits | amod |
| 26 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 kinds | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 kinds | det |
| 29 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fruits | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 foods | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 foods | cc |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 foods | amod |
| 33 | foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 abundance | case |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 abundance | amod |
| 36 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 foods | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | root | for the small broken fragments; of the Sampo; other foods in great abundance obl; luscious fruits of all kinds parataxis | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent root=Theme for fragment=Beneficiary of sampo=Source | ||||
| 2 | grow up | past | quickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | produce | gerund | great crops of rye and barley | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Result |
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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