The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 106

Then he bade the serving-men blow the bellows with all their might, while he heaped fresh fuel upon the flames and sang wild songs of wizardry and enchantment.

Who acts: Smith, serving men, wizardry · What happens: bade, blow, heap, sing · To what, where: bellows, fresh fuel, flames, wild songs

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith, serving men, wizardry), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bade	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	nsubj
3	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
5	serving	serving	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 serving	punct
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blow	nsubj
8	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bellows	det
10	bellows	bellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blow	obj
11	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 might	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 might	det:predet
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 might	nmod:poss
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 blow	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heaped	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 heaped	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heaped	nsubj
18	heaped	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	conj
19	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fuel	amod
20	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heaped	obj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 flames	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flames	det
23	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heaped	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sang	cc
25	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	conj
26	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 songs	amod
27	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sang	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 wizardry	case
29	wizardry	wizardry	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 songs	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 enchantment	cc
31	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wizardry	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	bade	past	Smith			then	tree rules
2	blow	present	the serving men	the bellows			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient
3	heap	past	Smith	fresh fuel	the flames		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme upon flame=Destination
4	sing speech: express	past	Smith not said here	wild songs of wizardry and enchantment			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
5	sing		wizardry and enchantment				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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 Caldron, sentence 106

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 106