The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 27
Showers of red sparks issued from the chimney and flew upward to the sky.
Who acts: Showers · What happens: issue, fly · To what, where: red sparks, chimney
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 (Showers), 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 | Showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sparks | case |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sparks | amod |
| 4 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Showers | nmod |
| 5 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sparks | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 chimney | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chimney | det |
| 8 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 issued | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 issued | cc |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 10 flew | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sky | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | participle | red sparks not said here | the chimney | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | Showers of red sparks | to the sky result; upward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sky=Result |
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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