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title: The heavier fragments which had sunk beneath the waves and were buri… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The heavier fragments which had sunk beneath the waves and were buried, invisible, in the black ooze and among the tangled seaweed, they also took root and spread out many branches toward every corner of the earth. Who acts: waves, fragments. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North»
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 124

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The heavier fragments which had sunk beneath the waves and were buried, invisible, in the black ooze and among the tangled seaweed, they also took root and spread out many branches toward every corner of the earth.

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**Who acts:** waves, fragments · **What happens:** sink, bury, tangle, take, spread out · **To what, where:** heavier fragments, root, many branches

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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 (waves, 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:pg66819:38:124
# text = The heavier fragments which had sunk beneath the waves and were buried, invisible, in the black ooze and among the tangled seaweed, they also took root and spread out many branches toward every corner of the earth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ooze	ooze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
29	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past · perfect · passive | the waves | the heavier fragments |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **bury** | past · passive | the waves *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **tangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past | fragments *= fragment* | root |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 5 | **spread out** | present | fragments *= fragment* *not said here* | many branches |  |  |  | toward every corner of the earth | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=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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