The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 61

All that day and all that night the smoke rolled black from the smithy chimney, and the hammer and anvil sang continuously their sweetest song.

Who acts: smoke, hammer · What happens: roll, sing · To what, where: sweetest song

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smoke, hammer), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det:predet
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rolled	obl:unmarked
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 night	cc
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det:predet
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 smoke	det
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rolled	nsubj
10	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rolled	xcomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 chimney	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chimney	det
14	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chimney	compound
15	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 black	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sang	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sang	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hammer	det
19	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sang	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 anvil	cc
21	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hammer	conj
22	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rolled	conj
23	continuously	continuously	ADV	_	22 sang	advmod
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 song	nmod:poss
25	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 song	amod
26	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sang	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	roll	past	the smoke		day	black property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	the hammer and anvil	hammer's sweetest song		continuously property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	sing		hammer				nom song «communication 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 61

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 61