The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 77

For hours and hours he toiled, till the sweat poured in torrents from his brow, and his hands were blistered and his fingers cramped with grasping the long, unyielding lever of iron.

Who acts: man, fingers · What happens: toil, pour, blister, cramp, grasp · To what, where: sweat, torrents, hands, long unyielding 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 (man, fingers), 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	_	2 hours	case
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 toiled	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hours	cc
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hours	conj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 toiled	nsubj
6	toiled	toil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sweat	punct
8	till	till	ADP	_	10 sweat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sweat	det
10	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 toiled	obl
11	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sweat	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 torrents	case
13	torrents	torrent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 poured	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 brow	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brow	nmod:poss
16	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 poured	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 blistered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 blistered	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 blistered	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 blistered	aux:pass
22	blistered	blister	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 toiled	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cramped	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 fingers	nmod:poss
25	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cramped	nsubj
26	cramped	cramp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 blistered	conj
27	with	with	SCONJ	_	28 grasping	mark
28	grasping	grasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 cramped	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lever	det
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lever	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 long	punct
32	unyielding	unyielding	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lever	amod
33	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grasping	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 iron	case
35	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lever	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 toiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toil	past	man			till the sweat; hour		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pour	participle		the sweat not said here	torrents		from man's brow	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from brow=Source
3	blister	past · passive		man's hands				tree rules
4	cramp	past	man's fingers					tree rules
5	grasp	gerund	man's fingers not said here	the long unyielding lever of iron				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lever=Stimulus

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 77