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

All that night he held the Smith’s strong hand and talked of naught but the Sampo and how, by it, they might save the lives of their famishing friends and neighbors.

Who acts: Minstrel, locks · What happens: hold, talk, save, famish · To what, where: strong hand, lives

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, locks), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 night	det:predet
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 held	nsubj
5	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Smith	det
7	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hand	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Smith	case
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hand	amod
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 talked	cc
12	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 held	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 naught	case
14	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 talked	obl
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 Sampo	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sampo	det
17	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 naught	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 how	cc
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 Sampo	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 it	punct
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 talked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 save	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 save	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 save	aux
26	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 held	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lives	det
28	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 save	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 friends	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friends	nmod:poss
31	famishing	famish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 friends	amod
32	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lives	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 neighbors	cc
34	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 friends	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	Minstrel	the Smith's strong hand	night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	talk	past	Minstrel not said here			of naught the Sampo; by hand	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	save	might	locks = lock	the lives of locks's famishing friends and neighbors			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
4	famish	gerund					tree rules

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 Famine, sentence 72

The tree

Pragmatics

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