The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 25
The great bellows puffed and groaned and shook the very ground with its roaring.
Who acts: great bellows, ground · What happens: puff, groan, shake, roar · To what, where: ground
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great bellows, ground), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bellows | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bellows | amod |
| 3 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 puffed | nsubj |
| 4 | puffed | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 groaned | cc |
| 6 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 puffed | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shook | cc |
| 8 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 puffed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 ground | advmod |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shook | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 roaring | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 roaring | nmod:poss |
| 14 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shook | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 puffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff | past | the great bellows | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 2 | groan | past | the great bellows not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shake | past | the great bellows not said here | the ground | with ground's roaring | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient with roaring=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | roar | ground | nom roaring «event intransitive»: poss=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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