The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 97
The fragments of the Sampo had been scattered in many places.
What happens: scatter · To what, where: fragments, many places
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fragments | det |
| 2 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sampo | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sampo | det |
| 5 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fragments | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 scattered | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 scattered | aux:pass |
| 8 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 places | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 places | amod |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 scattered | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past · perfect · passive | the fragments of the Sampo | many places | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in place=Destination |
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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