The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 67
Thus, for three long summer days and three brief summer nights, the fire glowed and the furnace roared and the men toiled and watched unceasingly.
Who acts: fire, furnace, men · What happens: glow, roar, toil, watch
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 (fire, furnace, men), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 glowed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 6 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 days | compound |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 glowed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nights | cc |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 nights | nummod |
| 10 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nights | amod |
| 11 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nights | compound |
| 12 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 days | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 days | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glowed | nsubj |
| 16 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 roared | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 furnace | det |
| 19 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roared | nsubj |
| 20 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 glowed | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 toiled | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 men | det |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 toiled | nsubj |
| 24 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 roared | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 watched | cc |
| 26 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 toiled | conj |
| 27 | unceasingly | unceasingly | ADV | _ | 26 watched | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 glowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | past | the fire | day | thus property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | roar | past | the furnace | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | toil | past | the men | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | watch | past | the men not said here | unceasingly property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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