The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 58
“Row, row, and let no man falter!” shouted Ilmarinen, himself wielding the foremost oar.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: let, shout, wield · To what, where: man falter, foremost oar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. 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 | _ | 2 Row | punct |
| 2 | Row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shouted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 row | punct |
| 4 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Row | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Row | appos |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 falter | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 falter | compound |
| 10 | falter | falter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 13 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 shouted | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wielding | punct |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 wielding | nsubj |
| 17 | wielding | wield | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 shouted | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 oar | det |
| 19 | foremost | foremost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 oar | amod |
| 20 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wielding | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | no man falter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falter=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | Ilmarinen | Row and row nsubj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wield | gerund | Ilmarinen | the foremost oar | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme |
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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