The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 107

And when, at last, all were finished, he carried them out of the forest, one by one, and laid them on the beach where the Minstrel had directed.

Who acts: Sampsa, Minstrel · What happens: finish, carry, lay, direct · To what, where: all, boards, forest, beach

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sampsa, Minstrel), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 last	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 last	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 last	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 last	case
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 finished	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 finished	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 finished	aux:pass
9	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 last	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 carried	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 carried	nsubj
12	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 last	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 carried	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 forest	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carried	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 forest	appos
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 one	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laid	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 laid	cc
24	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 carried	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 laid	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 beach	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 beach	det
28	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laid	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 directed	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Minstrel	det
31	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 directed	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 directed	aux
33	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 beach	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	finish	past · passive		all		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2	carry	past	Sampsa	boards = board	the forest	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out forest=Initial_Location
3	lay	past	Sampsa not said here	boards = board	the beach	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on beach=Destination
4	direct	past · perfect	the Minstrel			vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 107

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 107