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title: The fragments that were carried to the eastern seas spread their inf… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The fragments that were carried to the eastern seas spread their influence and took root in many lands. Who acts: fragments. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 118

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The fragments that were carried to the eastern seas spread their influence and took root in many lands.

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**Who acts:** fragments · **What happens:** carry, spread, take · **To what, where:** fragments, eastern seas, influence, root, many lands

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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 (fragments), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:38:118
# text = The fragments that were carried to the eastern seas spread their influence and took root in many lands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · passive |  | the fragments |  | the eastern seas |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to sea=Destination |
| 2 | **spread** | present | the fragments | fragments's influence |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location influence=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | the fragments *not said here* | root |  | many lands |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent root=Value in land=Location |

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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.

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**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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