The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 35

He let go of the long oar, the rudder with which he had steered the vessel, and as it fell splashing into the sea, he lifted his eyes and prayed:

Who acts: Minstrel, vessel · What happens: let, go, steer, fall, splash, lift · To what, where: vessel, sea, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, vessel), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 oar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oar	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oar	amod
7	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rudder	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rudder	det
10	rudder	rudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 oar	appos
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 steered	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 steered	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 steered	aux
15	steered	steer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 rudder	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 vessel	det
17	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 steered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lifted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lifted	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 fell	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lifted	advcl
23	splashing	splash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 fell	xcomp
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 splashing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lifted	nsubj
29	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lifted	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 prayed	cc
33	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lifted	conj
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	Minstrel				tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Minstrel not said here			of the long oar	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of oar=Initial_Location
3	steer	past · perfect	Minstrel	the vessel		with the rudder	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme
4	fall	past	vessel				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	splash	gerund	vessel not said here		the sea		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination
6	lift	past	Minstrel	Minstrel's eyes			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
7	pray	past	Minstrel not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 Fate of the Sampo, sentence 35