The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 43
“Now let every one work valiantly at his oar,” said Ilmarinen, “and let the red sail be hoisted on the mast.”
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: let, say, hoist · To what, where: one work, oar, red sail, mast · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 work | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 work | compound |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 7 | valiantly | valiantly | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 oar | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 oar | nmod:poss |
| 10 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sail | det |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sail | amod |
| 21 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hoisted | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hoisted | aux:pass |
| 23 | hoisted | hoist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 let | xcomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 mast | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mast | det |
| 26 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hoisted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | every one work | hero's oar | now | valiantly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent work=Theme at oar=Asset | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ilmarinen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hoist in a quote | infinitive · passive | the red sail | the mast | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on mast=Destination |
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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