The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 62
Tirelessly the ten men toiled, taking turns, five by five, at the mighty lever.
Who acts: ten men · What happens: toil, take · To what, where: turns, mighty lever
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: who acts (ten men), 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 | Tirelessly | tirelessly | ADV | _ | 5 toiled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 toiled | nsubj |
| 5 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taking | punct |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 toiled | advcl |
| 8 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taking | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 five | punct |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 turns | appos |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 five | case |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 five | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lever | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 lever | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lever | det |
| 16 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lever | amod |
| 17 | lever | lever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 toiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toil | past | the ten men | tirelessly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the ten men not said here | turns | the mighty lever | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent turn=Theme at lever=Asset |
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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