The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 122
Broken though it was, and battered and torn into strips and fragments, it, too, performed most marvellous things.
What happens: break, batter, tear, perform · To what, where: cover, strips, marvellous things
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 | Broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 battered | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 battered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 battered | aux:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 battered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 battered | cc |
| 7 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Broken | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 torn | cc |
| 9 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 battered | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 strips | case |
| 11 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 torn | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fragments | cc |
| 13 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 strips | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Broken | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Broken | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Broken | punct |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Broken | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 performed | punct |
| 19 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Broken | conj |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 marvellous | advmod |
| 21 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 performed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | cover | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | |||||
| 2 | batter | past · passive | cover | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | tear | participle | strips and fragments | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into strip=Destination | |||||
| 4 | perform | past | marvellous things | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
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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