The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 120

It rose in the air, higher, higher, until it looked like a cloud of fire-dust floating in the sky; then it faded away and Ilmarinen saw it no more.

Who acts: task, fire dust, Ilmarinen · What happens: rise, look, float, fade away, see, cloud · To what, where: air, sky, task, fire dust

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task, fire dust, Ilmarinen), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 air	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 air	det
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rose	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 higher	punct
7	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 rose	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 higher	punct
9	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 higher	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 looked	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 cloud	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cloud	det
16	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 dust	case
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dust	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 fire	punct
20	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cloud	nmod
21	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 dust	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 sky	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sky	det
24	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 floating	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 faded	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 faded	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 faded	nsubj
28	faded	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	parataxis
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 faded	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 saw	cc
31	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 saw	nsubj
32	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 faded	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 saw	obj
34	no	no	ADV	_	35 more	advmod
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 saw	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	task		the air			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location
2	look	past	task				like a cloud of fire dust	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	float	gerund	fire dust not said here		the sky			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Trajectory
4	fade away	past	task			then	away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	see	past	Ilmarinen	task				tree rules
6	cloud			fire dust				nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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 Field of Serpents, sentence 120

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 120