The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 118

Out of the smithy and out through the great world these cruel weapons raced, slashing and clashing, thrusting and cutting, raging and killing, and carrying madness among men.

Who acts: cruel weapons · What happens: race, slash, clash, thrust, cut, rage · To what, where: smithy, madness

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cruel weapons), 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	Out	out	ADP	_	4 smithy	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 smithy	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smithy	det
4	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 raced	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 world	cc
6	out	out	ADV	_	10 world	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 world	amod
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smithy	conj
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 weapons	det
12	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 weapons	amod
13	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 raced	nsubj
14	raced	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 slashing	punct
16	slashing	slash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 raced	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 clashing	cc
18	clashing	clash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 slashing	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thrusting	punct
20	thrusting	thrust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 slashing	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cutting	cc
22	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 thrusting	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 raging	punct
24	raging	rage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 slashing	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 killing	cc
26	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 raging	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 carrying	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 carrying	cc
29	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 raced	advcl
30	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carrying	obj
31	among	among	ADP	_	32 men	case
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 carrying	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 raced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	race	past	this cruel weapons		the smithy and the great world		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out smithy=Trajectory
2	slash	gerund	this cruel weapons not said here				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	clash	gerund	this cruel weapons not said here				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	thrust	gerund	this cruel weapons not said here				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	cut	gerund	this cruel weapons not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	rage	gerund	this cruel weapons not said here				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	kill	gerund	this cruel weapons not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	carry	gerund	this cruel weapons not said here	madness		among men	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent madness=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 118

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 118