The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 143

At length he ceased his bloody work, he laid his weapons down, grief overcame him, and sorrow for the destruction he had wrought.

Who acts: task, grief · What happens: cease, lay down, overcome, wrought, work · To what, where: bloody work, weapons, length, task, destruction

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 (task, grief), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ceased	nsubj
4	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 length	acl:relcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 work	nmod:poss
6	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 work	amod
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ceased	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laid	nsubj
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 weapons	nmod:poss
12	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 laid	obj
13	down	down	ADV	_	10 laid	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 overcame	punct
15	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 overcame	nsubj
16	overcame	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laid	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 overcame	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sorrow	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sorrow	cc
20	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 overcame	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 destruction	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 destruction	det
23	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sorrow	nmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wrought	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wrought	aux
26	wrought	wrought	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 destruction	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cease	past	task	task's bloody work			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality
2	lay down	past	task	task's weapons	length	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme at length=Destination
3	overcome	past	grief	task		sorrow for the destruction obl	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
4	wrought	past · perfect	task	the destruction not said here			tree rules
5	work		task				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 143

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 143