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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 43

The monstrous body sank to the bottom; but the Minstrel dragged the head up to the surface, and with Ahti’s help he hoisted the mighty jaws into the vessel.

Who acts: monstrous body, Minstrel, body, Ahti · What happens: sink, drag up, hoist, help · To what, where: head, surface, mighty jaws, vessel

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monstrous body, Minstrel, body, Ahti), 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

detamodnsubjcasedetoblpunctccdetnsubjconjdetobjcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctcccasenmod:posscaseoblnsubjconjdetamodobjcasedetoblpunctrootTheDETmonstrousADJbodyNOUNsankVERBtoADPtheDETbottomNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETMinstrelPROPNdraggedVERBtheDETheadNOUNupADPtoADPtheDETsurfaceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwithADPAhtiPROPN’sPARThelpNOUNhePRONhoistedVERBtheDETmightyADJjawsNOUNintoADPtheDETvesselNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 bodydet
2monstrousmonstrousADJDegree=Pos3 bodyamod
3bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing4 sanknsubj
4sanksinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5totoADP_7 bottomcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 bottomdet
7bottombottomNOUNNumber=Sing4 sankobl
8;;PUNCT_12 draggedpunct
9butbutCCONJ_12 draggedcc
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Minstreldet
11MinstrelMinstrelPROPNNumber=Sing12 draggednsubj
12draggeddragVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 sankconj
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 headdet
14headheadNOUNNumber=Sing12 draggedobj
15upupADP_12 draggedcompound:prt
16totoADP_18 surfacecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 surfacedet
18surfacesurfaceNOUNNumber=Sing12 draggedobl
19,,PUNCT_26 hoistedpunct
20andandCCONJ_26 hoistedcc
21withwithADP_24 helpcase
22AhtiAhtiPROPNNumber=Sing24 helpnmod:poss
23’s'sPART_22 Ahticase
24helphelpNOUNNumber=Sing26 hoistedobl
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 hoistednsubj
26hoistedhoistVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 sankconj
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 jawsdet
28mightymightyADJDegree=Pos29 jawsamod
29jawsjawNOUNNumber=Plur26 hoistedobj
30intointoADP_32 vesselcase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 vesseldet
32vesselvesselNOUNNumber=Sing26 hoistedobl
33..PUNCT_4 sankpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sinkpastthe monstrous bodyto the bottomvn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2drag uppastthe Minstrelthe headthe surfacevn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme to surface=Destination
3hoistpastbodythe mighty jawsthe vesselwith Ahti's helpvn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jaw=Theme into vessel=Destination
4helpAhtinom help «act transitive»: poss=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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