The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 124
The heavier fragments which had sunk beneath the waves and were buried, invisible, in the black ooze and among the tangled seaweed, they also took root and spread out many branches toward every corner of the earth.
Who acts: waves, fragments · What happens: sink, bury, tangle, take, spread out · To what, where: heavier fragments, root, many branches
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 (waves, 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 | 3 fragments | det |
| 2 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 fragments | amod |
| 3 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 invisible | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sunk | aux |
| 6 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fragments | acl:relcl |
| 7 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 9 waves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waves | det |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sunk | obl:agent |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 buried | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 buried | aux:pass |
| 12 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sunk | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 invisible | punct |
| 14 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ooze | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 ooze | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ooze | det |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ooze | amod |
| 19 | ooze | ooze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 invisible | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seaweed | cc |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 seaweed | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 seaweed | det |
| 23 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 seaweed | amod |
| 24 | seaweed | seaweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ooze | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 took | nsubj |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 took | advmod |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 invisible | parataxis |
| 29 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 spread | cc |
| 31 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 took | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 spread | compound:prt |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 branches | amod |
| 34 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 spread | obj |
| 35 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 37 corner | case |
| 36 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 corner | det |
| 37 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spread | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 earth | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 earth | det |
| 40 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 corner | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 invisible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past · perfect · passive | the waves | the heavier fragments | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bury | past · passive | the waves not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | tangle | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | take | past | fragments = fragment | root | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spread out | present | fragments = fragment not said here | many branches | toward every corner of the earth | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=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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