The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 26
The flames filled the furnace; they wrapped themselves around the caldron; they burst out through a thousand cracks and crevices; they leaped, in tongues of fire, through the windows of the smithy.
Who acts: flames · What happens: fill, wrap, burst out, leap · To what, where: furnace, flames, caldron, thousand cracks, tongues, windows
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 (flames), 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 | 2 flames | det |
| 2 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 furnace | det |
| 5 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 wrapped | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wrapped | nsubj |
| 8 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | conj |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 wrapped | obj |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 caldron | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 caldron | det |
| 12 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wrapped | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 burst | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 burst | nsubj |
| 15 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 burst | compound:prt |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 cracks | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thousand | det |
| 19 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 cracks | nummod |
| 20 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 burst | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crevices | cc |
| 22 | crevices | crevice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cracks | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 leaped | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 leaped | nsubj |
| 25 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tongues | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 tongues | case |
| 28 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 leaped | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 fire | case |
| 30 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tongues | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 windows | punct |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 windows | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 windows | det |
| 34 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 leaped | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 smithy | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 smithy | det |
| 37 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 windows | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | the flames | the furnace | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent furnace=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wrap | past | flames = flame | flames = flame | the caldron | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme around caldron=Destination | |||
| 3 | burst out | past | flames = flame | thousand cracks and crevices | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through crack=Location | ||||
| 4 | leap | past | flames = flame | tongues of fire | the windows of the smithy | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tongue=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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