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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 44

Instantly the benches were filled with rowers; all the young men and also the fifty fair maidens bent to their work; the water boiled with the strokes of a hundred long oars.

Who acts: benches · What happens: fill, bend, boil, work, stroke · To what, where: benches, fifty fair maidens, work, water, hundred long oars

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 (benches), 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

advmoddetnsubj:passaux:passcaseoblpunctdet:predetdetamodoblccadvmoddetnummodamodconjaclcasenmod:possoblpunctdetoblaclcasedetoblcasedetnummodamodnmodpunctrootInstantlyADVtheDETbenchesNOUNwereAUXfilledVERBwithADProwersNOUN;PUNCTallDETtheDETyoungADJmenNOUNandCCONJalsoADVtheDETfiftyNUMfairADJmaidensNOUNbentVERBtoADPtheirPRONworkNOUN;PUNCTtheDETwaterNOUNboiledVERBwithADPtheDETstrokesNOUNofADPaDEThundredNUMlongADJoarsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1InstantlyinstantlyADV_5 filledadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 benchesdet
3benchesbenchNOUNNumber=Plur5 fillednsubj:pass
4werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 filledaux:pass
5filledfillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6withwithADP_7 rowerscase
7rowersrowerNOUNNumber=Plur5 filledobl
8;;PUNCT_12 menpunct
9allallDETPronType=Tot12 mendet:predet
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 mendet
11youngyoungADJDegree=Pos12 menamod
12menmanNOUNNumber=Plur5 filledobl
13andandCCONJ_18 maidenscc
14alsoalsoADV_18 maidensadvmod
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 maidensdet
16fiftyfiftyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card18 maidensnummod
17fairfairADJDegree=Pos18 maidensamod
18maidensmaidenNOUNNumber=Plur12 menconj
19bentbendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 maidensacl
20totoADP_22 workcase
21theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 worknmod:poss
22workworkNOUNNumber=Sing19 bentobl
23;;PUNCT_25 waterpunct
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 waterdet
25waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing5 filledobl
26boiledboilVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 wateracl
27withwithADP_29 strokescase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 strokesdet
29strokesstrokeNOUNNumber=Plur26 boiledobl
30ofofADP_34 oarscase
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 hundreddet
32hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card34 oarsnummod
33longlongADJDegree=Pos34 oarsamod
34oarsoarNOUNNumber=Plur29 strokesnmod
35..PUNCT_5 filledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fillpast · passivethe bencheswith rowers; all young men and the fifty fair maidens obl; the water obl; instantly propertyvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rower=Instrument
2bendparticiplethe fifty fair maidens not said herebenches's workvn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to work=Location
3boilparticiplethe water not said herewith the strokes of hundred long oarsvn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with stroke=Instrument
4workbenches = benchnom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent
5strokehundred long oarsnom stroke «act transitive»: of=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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