The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 4
His bellows roared and his anvil tinkled sweet music, and a song burst from his lips as he welded and wrought and gave shape to wonderful things.
Who acts: bellows, anvil, elf · What happens: roar, tinkle, weld, give, bellow · To what, where: song burst, sweet music, shape, wonderful things
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bellows, anvil, elf), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bellows | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roared | nsubj |
| 3 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tinkled | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 anvil | nmod:poss |
| 6 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tinkled | nsubj |
| 7 | tinkled | tinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roared | conj |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 music | amod |
| 9 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tinkled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 burst | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 burst | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 burst | det |
| 13 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burst | compound |
| 14 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roared | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 lips | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 burst | nmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 welded | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 welded | nsubj |
| 20 | welded | weld | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roared | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wrought | cc |
| 22 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 welded | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roared | conj |
| 25 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 things | case |
| 27 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 things | amod |
| 28 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gave | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | elf's bellows | a song burst from elf's lips | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tinkle | past | elf's anvil | sweet music | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location music=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weld | past | elf | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | past | elf's bellows not said here | shape | wonderful things | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent shape=Theme to thing=Recipient | |||
| 5 | bellow | elf | nom bellow «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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