The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 74
He threw both fuel and metal into his forge, and while he recited one magic rune after another he thrust his long tongs into the roaring fire.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: throw, recite, thrust · To what, where: fuel, forge, one magic rune, long tongs, roaring fire
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 fuel | det |
| 4 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 metal | cc |
| 6 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fuel | conj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 forge | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 forge | nmod:poss |
| 9 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 recited | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 recited | cc |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 recited | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 recited | nsubj |
| 14 | recited | recite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 rune | nummod |
| 16 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rune | amod |
| 17 | rune | rune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recited | obj |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 thrust | mark |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 thrust | det |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thrust | nsubj |
| 21 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 recited | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tongs | nmod:poss |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tongs | amod |
| 24 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 thrust | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 fire | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fire | det |
| 27 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fire | compound |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thrust | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Ilmarinen | both fuel and metal | into Ilmarinen's forge result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer fuel=Theme into forge=Result | |||
| 2 | recite | past | Ilmarinen | one magic rune | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rune=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thrust | past | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen's long tongs | the roaring fire | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tong=Theme |
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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