The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 128
The smoke grew blacker, it curled round the branch of rowan, the green wood was growing hot amid the heaped-up coals.
Who acts: smoke, green wood · What happens: grow, curl, heap · To what, where: smoke, branch, hot amid
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smoke, green wood), 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 smoke | det |
| 2 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | blacker | black | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 curled | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 curled | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 branch | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 branch | det |
| 10 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 curled | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rowan | case |
| 12 | rowan | rowan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 branch | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 growing | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wood | amod |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 growing | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 growing | aux |
| 18 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 curled | conj |
| 19 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 amid | amod |
| 20 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 growing | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 coals | det |
| 22 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 up | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 heaped | punct |
| 24 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 coals | compound |
| 25 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 growing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the smoke | black property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | curl | participle · passive | smoke | the branch of rowan | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme round branch=Destination | ||||
| 3 | grow | past · progressive | the green wood | hot amid | the up coals obj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent amid=Beneficiary coal=Product | |||
| 4 | heap | participle | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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