The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 121
And now the bellows was set to blowing again, and it roared like a tempest in a forest of pines; the smoke rolled darkly from the chimney; and the fire glowed hotter than before around the seething caldron.
Who acts: caldron, smoke, fire · What happens: set, blowing, roar, roll, glow, seethe · To what, where: bellows, forest, chimney, seething caldron
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 (caldron, smoke, fire), 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 | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bellows | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bellows | det |
| 4 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux:pass |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 blowing | case |
| 8 | blowing | blowing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 set | xcomp |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 blowing | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 roared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 roared | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 roared | nsubj |
| 13 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 tempest | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tempest | det |
| 16 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roared | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roared | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pines | case |
| 21 | pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 forest | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 rolled | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 smoke | det |
| 24 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rolled | nsubj |
| 25 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | parataxis |
| 26 | darkly | darkly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rolled | xcomp |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 chimney | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chimney | det |
| 29 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rolled | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 glowed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 glowed | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fire | det |
| 33 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 glowed | nsubj |
| 34 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | conj |
| 35 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 glowed | xcomp |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 before | case |
| 37 | before | before | ADV | _ | 35 hotter | obl |
| 38 | around | around | ADP | _ | 41 caldron | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 caldron | det |
| 40 | seething | seethe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 caldron | amod |
| 41 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 glowed | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | the bellows | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | blowing | infinitive | again | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | roar | past | caldron | a forest of pines | like a tempest | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | |||
| 4 | roll | past | the smoke | the chimney | darkly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from chimney=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | glow | past | the fire | the seething caldron | hot property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around caldron=Location | |||
| 6 | seethe | gerund | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=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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