The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 78
She therefore seized the pictured cover with her monstrous beak, she pulled it from its place, and, twisting it until it broke into three jagged pieces, she cast it into the sea.
Who acts: Pohyola, Sampo · What happens: seize, picture, pull, twist, break, cast · To what, where: pictured cover, cover, place, Sampo, three jagged pieces, sea
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 (Pohyola, Sampo), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 seized | advmod |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cover | det |
| 5 | pictured | picture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cover | amod |
| 6 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 beak | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beak | nmod:poss |
| 9 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beak | amod |
| 10 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cover | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulled | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pulled | nsubj |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pulled | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 place | nmod:poss |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cast | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cast | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 twisting | punct |
| 21 | twisting | twist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 cast | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 twisting | obj |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 broke | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 broke | nsubj |
| 25 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 cast | advcl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 pieces | case |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 pieces | nummod |
| 28 | jagged | jagged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pieces | amod |
| 29 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 broke | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 broke | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cast | nsubj |
| 32 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cast | obj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 sea | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sea | det |
| 36 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cast | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Pohyola | the pictured cover | with Pohyola's monstrous beak; therefore property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme | |||
| 2 | picture | participle | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | pull | past | Pohyola | cover | Sampo's place | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from place=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | twist | gerund | Pohyola not said here | Sampo | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | break | past | Sampo | into three jagged pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result | ||||
| 6 | cast | past | Pohyola | Sampo | the sea | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into sea=Product |
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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