The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 115
He saw all the other fragments of the Sampo and its pictured cover, and he watched each one as it was carried east, west, or south and left upon some strange, unheard-of shore.
Who acts: vision · What happens: see, picture, watch, carry, leave · To what, where: other fragments, one, cover, strange
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 (vision), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 fragments | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fragments | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fragments | amod |
| 6 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Sampo | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sampo | det |
| 9 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fragments | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cover | cc |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cover | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pictured | picture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cover | amod |
| 13 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Sampo | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 watched | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 watched | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 watched | nsubj |
| 17 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 watched | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 carried | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 carried | aux:pass |
| 23 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 watched | advcl |
| 24 | east | east | ADV | _ | 23 carried | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 west | punct |
| 26 | west | west | ADV | _ | 23 carried | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 south | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 south | cc |
| 29 | south | south | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 left | cc |
| 31 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saw | conj |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 strange | case |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 strange | det |
| 34 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 left | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 unheard | punct |
| 36 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | conj |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 unheard | punct |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 shore | case |
| 39 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 unheard | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | vision | all other fragments of the Sampo and Sampo's pictured cover | south property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fragment=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | picture | participle | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | watch | past | vision | each one | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | past · passive | cover | east, west property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | participle | vision not said here | some strange | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent upon strange=Location |
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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