The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 93
Then, just at sunrise, the Smith called to the bellows-men, “Halt!”
What happens: call · To what, where: sunrise, bellows · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | 5 sunrise | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sunrise | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sunrise | case |
| 5 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Smith | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Smith | det |
| 8 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sunrise | appos |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sunrise | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bellows | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bellows | det |
| 12 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 called | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 men | punct |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bellows | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Halt | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Halt | punct |
| 17 | Halt | halt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 men | conj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 sunrise | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sunrise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | sunrise not said here | the bellows | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bellow=Recipient |
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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