The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 56

And now on the fated red ship of the heroes an awful struggle began—a struggle the bloodiest and the woefullest that sea or sky ever looked upon or minstrel’s song ever painted in words.

Who acts: awful struggle, woefullest sea · What happens: begin, look, paint · To what, where: fated red ship, words

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 (awful struggle, woefullest sea), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 began	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 ship	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
5	fated	fated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ship	amod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ship	amod
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 heroes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heroes	det
10	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 began	obl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 struggle	det
12	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 struggle	amod
13	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 bloodiest	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 struggle	det
17	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bloodiest	nsubj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bloodiest	det
19	bloodiest	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 began	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 woefullest	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woefullest	det
22	woefullest	woeful	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 sea	amod
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looked	nsubj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 sky	cc
26	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sea	conj
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 looked	advmod
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bloodiest	parataxis
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 song	case
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 minstrel	cc
31	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 song	compound
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 minstrel	case
33	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looked	obl
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 painted	advmod
35	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 looked	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 words	case
37	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 painted	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	a awful struggle	the fated red ship	now	of the heroes; bloody property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	look	past	that woefullest sea or sky		ever	upon minstrel song	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon song=Theme
3	paint	participle	that woefullest sea or sky not said here	words	ever		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in word=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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 56