The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 121
As for the pictured cover, it was borne far, very far, to the utmost bounds of the western sea.
What happens: picture, bear · To what, where: cover
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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 cover | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cover | det |
| 4 | pictured | picture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cover | amod |
| 5 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 borne | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cover | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 borne | aux:pass |
| 9 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 borne | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 far | punct |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 borne | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bounds | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bounds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bounds | det |
| 17 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bounds | amod |
| 18 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 borne | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 21 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sea | amod |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bounds | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 borne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | participle | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | cover | as the pictured cover; to the utmost bounds of the western sea; far property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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