The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 12
Every rib of the strong vessel was shattered, the rowlocks were broken, the oars were lost in the turbulent waves, the deck boards were loosened and carried away.
Who acts: rib, turbulent waves · What happens: be, break, lose, loosen, carry away · To what, where: rowlocks, oars, deck boards
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 (rib, turbulent waves), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 rib | det |
| 2 | rib | rib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shattered | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 vessel | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vessel | det |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 vessel | amod |
| 6 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rib | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shattered | cop |
| 8 | shattered | shattered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 broken | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rowlocks | det |
| 11 | rowlocks | rowlock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 broken | aux:pass |
| 13 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 shattered | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 oars | det |
| 16 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux:pass |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 broken | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 waves | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 waves | det |
| 21 | turbulent | turbulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 waves | amod |
| 22 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lost | obl:agent |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 loosened | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boards | det |
| 25 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 boards | compound |
| 26 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 loosened | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 loosened | aux:pass |
| 28 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 waves | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 carried | cc |
| 30 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 loosened | conj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 carried | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | every rib of the strong vessel | shattered property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | past · passive | the rowlocks | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | the turbulent waves | the oars | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | loosen | past · passive | the deck boards | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | carry away | participle | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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