The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 78

And, behold! as he sang, one side of the boat was filled with strong young men, handsome youths, with long hair and downy cheeks and hands all hardened by labor.

Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: sing, fill, harden · To what, where: one side

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 sang	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 behold	punct
3	behold	behold	INTJ	_	7 sang	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 behold	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 sang	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sang	nsubj
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 side	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 side	nummod
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sang	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 boat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boat	det
13	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 filled	obl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 filled	aux:pass
15	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 side	acl:relcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 men	case
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 men	amod
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 men	amod
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 filled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 youths	punct
21	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 youths	amod
22	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 men	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hair	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 hair	case
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hair	amod
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 youths	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cheeks	cc
28	downy	downy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cheeks	amod
29	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 men	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hardened	cc
31	hands	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 hardened	aux
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 hardened	advmod
33	hardened	harden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 filled	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 labor	case
35	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hardened	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Minstrel	one side		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	fill	past · passive		one side not said here	of the boat; with strong young men and handsome youths with long hair and downy cheeks	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with man=Instrument
3	harden	present			by labor; all property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 Weeping Ship, sentence 78

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Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 78