The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 72

Across the broad stream he labored; through a thousand narrow holes he squeezed and clambered; and, at length, wearied exceedingly, he reached the shore of safety and climbed panting upon the dry, warm, throbbing land of the living.

Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: labor, squeeze, clamber, weary, reach, climb · To what, where: broad stream, thousand narrow holes, length, shore

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainamoinen), 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	Across	across	ADP	_	4 stream	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stream	det
3	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stream	amod
4	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 labored	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 labored	nsubj
6	labored	labor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 squeezed	punct
8	through	through	ADP	_	12 holes	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thousand	det
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 holes	nummod
11	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 holes	amod
12	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 squeezed	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 squeezed	nsubj
14	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 labored	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 clambered	cc
16	clambered	clamber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 squeezed	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 reached	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 reached	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 length	punct
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 length	case
21	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reached	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wearied	punct
23	wearied	weary	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 length	acl
24	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	23 wearied	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 length	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reached	nsubj
27	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 labored	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shore	det
29	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reached	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 safety	case
31	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shore	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 climbed	cc
33	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 reached	conj
34	panting	pant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 climbed	xcomp
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 land	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 land	det
37	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 land	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 dry	punct
39	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 land	amod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 warm	punct
41	throbbing	throb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 land	amod
42	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 panting	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 living	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 living	det
45	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 land	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 labored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	labor	past	Wainamoinen		the broad stream		vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	squeeze	past	Wainamoinen		thousand narrow holes		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through hole=Trajectory
3	clamber	past	Wainamoinen not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	weary	participle		length not said here		exceedingly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	reach	past	Wainamoinen	the shore of safety		length ccomp	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
6	climb	past	Wainamoinen not said here				tree rules
7	pant	gerund	Wainamoinen not said here			upon the dry warm throbbing land of the living	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	throb	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Hag of the Rock, sentence 72