The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 8
He kept on singing and hammering and blowing his bellows, altogether forgetful of everything save the work in hand.
Who acts: Smith · What happens: keep, sing, hammer, blow, save, bellow · To what, where: bellows, work, hand
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 (Smith), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 singing | mark |
| 4 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 kept | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hammering | cc |
| 6 | hammering | hammer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 singing | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blowing | cc |
| 8 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 singing | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bellows | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blowing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 save | punct |
| 12 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 16 save | advmod |
| 13 | forgetful | forgetful | ADP | _ | 15 everything | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 everything | case |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 save | obl |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 work | det |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 save | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 save | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Smith | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | Smith not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hammer | gerund | Smith not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | blow | gerund | Smith not said here | Smith's bellows | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient | ||||
| 5 | save | present | the work | hand | forgetful everything; altogether property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||
| 6 | bellow | Smith | 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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