The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 70
Again the bellows roared, again the flames leaped up in the ample forge, again the black smoke poured from the chimney top.
Who acts: bellows · What happens: roar, leap up, pour · To what, where: flames, ample forge, black smoke, chimney top
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 (bellows), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 4 roared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bellows | det |
| 3 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 roared | nsubj |
| 4 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flames | punct |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 flames | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flames | det |
| 8 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 roared | obj |
| 9 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 flames | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 leaped | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 forge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forge | det |
| 13 | ample | ample | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 forge | amod |
| 14 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 smoke | punct |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 smoke | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 smoke | det |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 smoke | amod |
| 19 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forge | conj |
| 20 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 smoke | acl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 top | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 top | det |
| 23 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 top | compound |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poured | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | the bellows | the flames | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flame=Theme | |||
| 2 | leap up | participle | the flames not said here | the ample forge and the black smoke | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forge=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | pour | participle | the black smoke not said here | the chimney top | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from top=Source |
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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