The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 87
Boldly, confidently, the half-grown boys, the young men, the old fishermen, all grasped the wonderful instrument and tried to play upon it.
Who acts: grown boys · What happens: grow, grasp, try, play · To what, where: wonderful instrument
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 (grown boys), 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 | Boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 confidently | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Boldly | punct |
| 3 | confidently | confidently | ADV | _ | 20 grasped | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 confidently | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boys | det |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 grown | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 half | punct |
| 8 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 boys | amod |
| 9 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grasped | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 men | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 boys | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fishermen | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fishermen | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fishermen | amod |
| 17 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 boys | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 boys | punct |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 grasped | advmod |
| 20 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 instrument | det |
| 22 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 instrument | amod |
| 23 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grasped | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tried | cc |
| 25 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 grasped | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 play | mark |
| 27 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 tried | xcomp |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 play | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 grasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | half compound | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grasp | past | the grown boys and the young men and the old fishermen | the wonderful instrument | all, confidently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer instrument=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | try | past | the grown boys and the young men and the old fishermen not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | the grown boys and the young men and the old fishermen not said here | upon instrument | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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