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title: Broken though it was, and battered and torn into strips and fragment… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Broken though it was, and battered and torn into strips and fragments, it, too, performed most marvellous things. 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 122

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Broken though it was, and battered and torn into strips and fragments, it, too, performed most marvellous things.

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**What happens:** break, batter, tear, perform · **To what, where:** cover, strips, marvellous things

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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: 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:pg66819:38:122
# text = Broken though it was, and battered and torn into strips and fragments, it, too, performed most marvellous things.
1	Broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	battered	batter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  | cover |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 2 | **batter** | past · passive |  | cover |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  | strips and fragments |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into strip=Destination |
| 4 | **perform** | past |  | marvellous things |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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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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