The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 22
Thereupon the hero Ilmarinen and the young men that were with him hastened to pour oil upon the rusty metal.
Who acts: young men · What happens: be, hasten, pour · To what, where: young men, oil, hero
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 (young men), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 hero | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hero | det |
| 3 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hero | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 men | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hero | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 him | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 him | cop |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 men | acl:relcl |
| 13 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 men | acl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 pour | mark |
| 15 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hastened | advcl |
| 16 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pour | obj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 metal | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 metal | det |
| 19 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 metal | amod |
| 20 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pour | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hero | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young men | with hero | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | the young men not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | pour | to-infinitive | oil | upon the rusty metal | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=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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