The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 66
Ilmarinen heaped on more fuel, he opened the draughts of the furnace, he danced like a madman in the light of the flames, he shouted strange words of magic meaning.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: heap, open, dance, shout, light, word · To what, where: more fuel, draughts, light, strange words, flames, magic meaning
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 (Ilmarinen), 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 heaped | nsubj |
| 2 | heaped | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 fuel | case |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 fuel | amod |
| 5 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heaped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 opened | nsubj |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heaped | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 draughts | det |
| 10 | draughts | draught | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 opened | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 furnace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 furnace | det |
| 13 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 draughts | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 danced | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 danced | nsubj |
| 16 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heaped | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 madman | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 madman | det |
| 19 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 danced | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 light | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 light | det |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 danced | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 flames | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flames | det |
| 25 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 light | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 shouted | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 shouted | nsubj |
| 28 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heaped | conj |
| 29 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 words | amod |
| 30 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 shouted | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 meaning | case |
| 32 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 meaning | amod |
| 33 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 words | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heap | past | Ilmarinen | more fuel | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on fuel=Destination | ||||
| 2 | open | past | Ilmarinen | the draughts of the furnace | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location draught=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dance | past | Ilmarinen | the light of the flames | like a madman | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | |||
| 4 | shout speech: express | past | Ilmarinen | strange words of magic meaning | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 5 | light | the flames | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | word | magic meaning | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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