The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 118
The fragments that were carried to the eastern seas spread their influence and took root in many lands.
Who acts: fragments · What happens: carry, spread, take · To what, where: fragments, eastern seas, influence, root, many lands
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 (fragments), 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 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux:pass |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fragments | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 seas | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seas | det |
| 8 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seas | amod |
| 9 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carried | obl |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 influence | nmod:poss |
| 12 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spread | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spread | conj |
| 15 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 lands | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lands | amod |
| 18 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | the fragments | the eastern seas | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to sea=Destination | ||||
| 2 | spread | present | the fragments | fragments's influence | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location influence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the fragments not said here | root | many lands | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent root=Value in land=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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