The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 60
One by one the heroes fell; and by fives and tens the low-browed warriors of Pohyola were thrust overboard to perish in the waves.
Who acts: One, browed warriors · What happens: fall, brow, be, perish · To what, where: thrust, waves
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 (One, browed warriors), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heroes | det |
| 5 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 perish | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 perish | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 fives | case |
| 10 | fives | fives | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 perish | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tens | cc |
| 12 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fives | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 warriors | det |
| 14 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 browed | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 low | punct |
| 16 | browed | brow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 warriors | amod |
| 17 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 thrust | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Pohyola | case |
| 19 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 warriors | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 thrust | cop |
| 21 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tens | acl:relcl |
| 22 | overboard | overboard | ADV | _ | 24 perish | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 perish | mark |
| 24 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fell | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 waves | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 waves | det |
| 27 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 perish | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | One by one | the heroes nsubj | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | brow | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | the browed warriors of Pohyola | thrust | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | perish | to-infinitive | One by one not said here | the waves | by fives and tens; overboard property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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