The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 29

Suddenly the sun was obscured and an ink-black shadow fell upon the deck of the red ship—it fell upon the Sampo where it was bound with ropes to the bow beams.

Who acts: black shadow, shadow · What happens: obscure, fall, bind · To what, where: sun, deck, Sampo, shadow

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 (black shadow, shadow), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 obscured	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obscured	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 obscured	aux:pass
5	obscured	obscure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fell	cc
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shadow	det
8	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 black	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 ink	punct
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shadow	amod
11	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 obscured	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 deck	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 deck	det
15	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 ship	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ship	det
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ship	amod
19	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deck	nmod
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fell	conj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 Sampo	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sampo	det
25	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 bound	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bound	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 bound	aux:pass
29	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 fell	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 ropes	case
31	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bound	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 beams	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 beams	det
34	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 beams	compound
35	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bound	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 obscured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	obscure	past · passive		the sun		suddenly property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	fall	past	a black shadow		the deck of the red ship		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon deck=Location
3	fall	past	shadow		the Sampo		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon sampo=Location
4	bind	past · passive		shadow		with ropes; to the bow beams	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with rope=Co-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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 29