The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 29

Ilmarinen led the Minstrel into the smithy; he made him sit down on the edge of his workbench; and all the time he kept his arm around his neck in loving, brotherly embrace.

Who acts: Ilmarinen, Minstrel · What happens: lead, make, sit down, keep · To what, where: Minstrel, smithy, edge, arm, neck

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, Minstrel), 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	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 led	nsubj
2	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Minstrel	det
4	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 led	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 smithy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 smithy	det
7	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 led	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 led	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	xcomp
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sit	compound:prt
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 edge	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 edge	det
16	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sit	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 workbench	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 workbench	nmod:poss
19	workbench	workbench	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 edge	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 kept	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 kept	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 time	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obl:unmarked
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 kept	nsubj
26	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 led	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arm	nmod:poss
28	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obj
29	around	around	ADP	_	31 neck	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 neck	nmod:poss
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 embrace	case
33	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 embrace	amod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 loving	punct
35	brotherly	brotherly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 embrace	amod
36	embrace	embrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	Ilmarinen	the Minstrel	the smithy			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent minstrel=Theme into smithy=Destination
2	make	past	Ilmarinen	Minstrel				tree rules
3	sit down	infinitive	Minstrel not said here		the edge of Minstrel's workbench			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
4	keep	past	Ilmarinen	Minstrel's arm	Minstrel's neck	time	in loving brotherly embrace	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around neck=Location

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 29