---
title: She dived deep down into the water and there she found the tear-drop… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She dived deep down into the water and there she found the tear-drops lying on the black ooze at the bottom. Who acts: spinning, tear drops. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/106/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Triumph of Music](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/) / 106

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 106

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She dived deep down into the water and there she found the tear-drops lying on the black ooze at the bottom.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** spinning, tear drops · **What happens:** dive, find, lie · **To what, where:** water, tear drops, black ooze

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spinning, tear drops), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:35:106
# text = She dived deep down into the water and there she found the tear-drops lying on the black ooze at the bottom.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ooze	ooze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive** | past | spinning |  |  | the water |  | down *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | spinning | the tear drops |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Topic |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | the tear drops *not said here* |  |  | the black ooze |  | at the bottom | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ooze=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/105/)
- next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/107/)
- ↑ back to [The Triumph of Music](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/)