The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 70

With their bare hands they laid hold of the long lever, they put their naked shoulders against it and worked steadily with might and main.

Who acts: bare hands, slaves · What happens: lay, put, work, hold · To what, where: hold, naked shoulders, hand, long lever

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bare hands, slaves), 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	With	with	SCONJ	_	6 laid	mark
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
3	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hands	amod
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laid	nsubj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laid	nsubj
6	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 put	advcl
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 lever	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lever	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lever	amod
11	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 laid	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	nsubj
14	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shoulders	nmod:poss
16	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shoulders	amod
17	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obj
18	against	against	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 worked	cc
21	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 put	conj
22	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	21 worked	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 might	case
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 worked	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 main	cc
26	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 might	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	slaves's bare hands	hold of the long lever		slaves = slave nsubj	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
2	put	past	slaves = slave	slaves's naked shoulders	hand		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme against it=Destination
3	work	past	slaves = slave not said here			steadily property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hold			the long lever			nom hold «act 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 70

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 70