The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 69
On the fourth day, the wizard Smith bade the workmen pause while he stooped down and looked into the caldron far within the fire-filled furnace.
Who acts: wizard Smith bade, bade · What happens: pause, stoop down, look, fill
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 (wizard Smith bade, bade), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pause | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bade | det |
| 7 | wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bade | amod |
| 8 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bade | compound |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pause | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 workmen | det |
| 11 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bade | conj |
| 12 | pause | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 stooped | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stooped | nsubj |
| 15 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pause | ccomp |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 stooped | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stooped | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 caldron | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 caldron | det |
| 21 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 looked | advmod |
| 23 | within | within | ADP | _ | 28 furnace | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 furnace | det |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 filled | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 fire | punct |
| 27 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 furnace | amod |
| 28 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | present | the wizard Smith bade and the workmen | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stoop down | past | bade | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | past | bade not said here | within the filled furnace; into the caldron; far property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into caldron=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fill | participle | fire compound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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