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title: With their bare hands they laid hold of the long lever, they put the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With their bare hands they laid hold of the long lever, they put their naked shoulders against it and worked steadily with might and main. Who acts: bare hands, slaves. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 70

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With their bare hands they laid hold of the long lever, they put their naked shoulders against it and worked steadily with might and main.

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**Who acts:** bare hands, slaves · **What happens:** lay, put, work, hold · **To what, where:** hold, naked shoulders, hand, long lever

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bare hands, slaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:31:70
# text = With their bare hands they laid hold of the long lever, they put their naked shoulders against it and worked steadily with might and main.
1	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lever	lever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	steadily	steadily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | slaves's bare hands | hold of the long lever |  |  |  | slaves *= slave* *nsubj* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result |
| 2 | **put** | past | slaves *= slave* | slaves's naked shoulders |  | hand |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme against it=Destination |
| 3 | **work** | past | slaves *= slave* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | steadily *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hold** |  |  | the long lever |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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