The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 72
For a brief hour the workmen toiled and paused not.
Who acts: workmen · What happens: toil, not pause
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 (workmen), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 3 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hour | amod |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 toiled | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 workmen | det |
| 6 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 toiled | nsubj |
| 7 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 paused | cc |
| 9 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 toiled | conj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 paused | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 toiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toil | past | the workmen | hour | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not pause | past | the workmen not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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