The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 98

Some of the wheels had rolled into the sea; they had sunk to the bottom, there to be covered with tangled weeds and the slimy ooze of the unseen depths.

Who acts: wheels · What happens: roll, sink, cover, tangle · To what, where: wheels, 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 (wheels), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 wheels	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 wheels	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wheels	det
4	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rolled	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rolled	aux
6	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rolled	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 sunk	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sunk	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sunk	aux
13	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 rolled	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 bottom	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bottom	det
16	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sunk	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 covered	punct
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 covered	expl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 covered	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 covered	aux:pass
21	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rolled	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 weeds	case
23	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 weeds	amod
24	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 covered	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ooze	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ooze	det
27	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ooze	amod
28	ooze	ooze	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 weeds	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 depths	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 depths	det
31	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 depths	amod
32	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ooze	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	past · perfect · passive		some wheels	the sea		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into sea=Trajectory
2	sink	past · perfect	wheels = wheel			to the bottom	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	cover	to-infinitive · passive			there	with tangled weeds and the slimy ooze of the unseen depths	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with weed=Theme
4	tangle	participle					tree rules

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 98

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 98