The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 73

Then one said, “I am tired,” and slunk away in the darkness; and the second said, “I am faint with the heat,” and let his hands fall from the bellows; and the third said, “The work is too hard for one man alone to perform,” and he, too, abandoned his post.

Who acts: one, I, second, hands, third, work · What happens: say, be, slink away, let, fall, perform · To what, where: darkness, bellows, post · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one, I, second, hands), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tired	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	cop
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slunk	cc
12	slunk	slink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 slunk	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 darkness	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 darkness	det
16	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slunk	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 second	det
20	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 faint	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 faint	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 faint	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 faint	cop
26	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 said	ccomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 heat	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heat	det
29	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 faint	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 heat	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 faint	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 let	cc
33	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 said	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hands	nmod:poss
35	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fall	nsubj
36	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 let	advcl
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 bellows	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 bellows	det
39	bellows	bellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fall	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 said	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 third	det
43	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 said	nsubj
44	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 hard	punct
46	“	"	PUNCT	_	51 hard	punct
47	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 work	det
48	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 hard	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 hard	cop
50	too	too	ADV	_	51 hard	advmod
51	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 said	ccomp
52	for	for	ADP	_	54 man	case
53	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 man	nummod
54	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 hard	obl
55	alone	alone	ADV	_	51 hard	advmod
56	to	to	PART	_	57 perform	mark
57	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 hard	advcl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct
59	”	"	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 abandoned	cc
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 abandoned	nsubj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 he	punct
63	too	too	ADV	_	65 abandoned	advmod
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 too	punct
65	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 said	conj
66	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 post	nmod:poss
67	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 abandoned	obj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	one			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	I				tired property	tree rules
3	slink away	past	one not said here		the darkness		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	past	the second					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	the second = second				with the heat; faint property	tree rules
6	let	infinitive	the second not said here					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7	fall	present	man's hands		the bellows			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bellow=Initial_Location
8	say speech: assert	past	the third					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	is in a quote	present	the work				for one man; alone, hard property	tree rules
10	perform in a quote	to-infinitive	the work not said here					vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	abandon	past	third	third's post				vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme post=Source

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 73