The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 34
Ten men, willing and strong, followed him, prepared to do any sort of labor, to undergo any sort of privation.
What happens: follow, prepare, do, undergo, sort · To what, where: Ilmarinen, sort, labor, privation
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. 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.
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 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 men | nummod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 willing | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 willing | punct |
| 4 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 strong | cc |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 willing | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 willing | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 followed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prepared | punct |
| 11 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 undergo | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 undergo | advcl |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 sort | det |
| 15 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 labor | case |
| 17 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sort | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 undergo | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 undergo | mark |
| 20 | undergo | undergo | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 willing | parataxis |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 sort | det |
| 22 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 undergo | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 privation | case |
| 24 | privation | privation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sort | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Ilmarinen | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 2 | prepare | participle | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | any sort of labor | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | undergo | to-infinitive | any sort of privation | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sort | labor | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | sort | privation | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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