The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 63
Like the fierce North Wind sweeping over the hills and rushing through the piney forest, the heaving bellows roared.
Who acts: fierce North Wind, heaving bellows · What happens: sweep, rush, roar · To what, where: hills, piney forest
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 (fierce North Wind, heaving bellows), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 5 Wind | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Wind | det |
| 3 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Wind | amod |
| 4 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wind | compound |
| 5 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 roared | obl |
| 6 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Wind | acl |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 hills | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sweeping | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rushing | cc |
| 11 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sweeping | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 14 | piney | piney | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 forest | amod |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rushing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wind | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bellows | det |
| 18 | heaving | heaving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bellows | compound |
| 19 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 roared | nsubj |
| 20 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | gerund | the fierce North Wind not said here | the hills | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | rush | gerund | the fierce North Wind not said here | the piney forest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | roar | past | the heaving bellows | like the fierce North Wind | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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