The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 154

“To your oars, my brave men, to your oars!” shouted Ilmarinen, and every man bent willingly to his task.

Who acts: Ilmarinen, man, oar · What happens: shout, bend, task · To what, where: oars, task

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, man, oar), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 shouted	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 oars	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 oars	nmod:poss
4	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shouted	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 men	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 men	nmod:poss
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 oars	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 oars	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 oars	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 oars	nmod:poss
12	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 oars	conj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 oars	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 oars	punct
15	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 shouted	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bent	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bent	cc
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bent	nsubj
21	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shouted	conj
22	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	21 bent	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 task	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 task	nmod:poss
25	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bent	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	Ilmarinen	your oars and my brave men and your oars			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to oar=Recipient
2	bend	past	every man		oar's task	willingly property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to task=Location
3	task		oar				nom task «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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 154

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 154