The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 91
Then he bade the workmen blow the bellows as before; and he heaped on more fuel and more fuel, singing meanwhile a wild, weird song which made the flames leap out from the very top of the chimney.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, workmen, wild weird song · What happens: bade, blow, heap, sing, make, leap out · To what, where: bellows, more fuel, wild weird song, flames, top
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, workmen, wild weird song), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bade | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 3 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 workmen | det |
| 5 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blow | nsubj |
| 6 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bellows | det |
| 8 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blow | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 before | case |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 blow | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 heaped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heaped | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heaped | nsubj |
| 14 | heaped | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 fuel | case |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 fuel | amod |
| 17 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heaped | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fuel | cc |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 fuel | amod |
| 20 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fuel | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 singing | punct |
| 22 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 heaped | advcl |
| 23 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 28 song | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 song | det |
| 25 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 song | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wild | punct |
| 27 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 song | amod |
| 28 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 singing | obj |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 made | nsubj |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 song | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 flames | det |
| 32 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 made | obj |
| 33 | leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 singing | advcl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 leap | compound:prt |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 top | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 top | det |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 top | advmod |
| 38 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 leap | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 chimney | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 chimney | det |
| 41 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 top | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Ilmarinen | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blow | present | the workmen | the bellows | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient | ||||
| 3 | heap | past | Ilmarinen | more fuel and more fuel | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on fuel=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | Ilmarinen not said here | a wild weird song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | past | a wild weird song | the flames | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flame=Product | ||||
| 6 | leap out | present | Ilmarinen not said here | the top of the chimney | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from top=Trajectory |
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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