The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 75
Presently, when the smoke subsided and the coals were white with heat, he drew forth a great mass of half-melted iron.
Who acts: smoke, coals · What happens: subside, be, draw, melt · To what, where: great mass
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 (smoke, coals), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 6 subsided | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 subsided | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 subsided | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smoke | det |
| 5 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 subsided | nsubj |
| 6 | subsided | subside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 white | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coals | det |
| 9 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 white | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 white | cop |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 subsided | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 heat | case |
| 13 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 white | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drew | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drew | nsubj |
| 16 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 subsided | conj |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 drew | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mass | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mass | amod |
| 20 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drew | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 iron | case |
| 22 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 24 melted | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 half | punct |
| 24 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 iron | amod |
| 25 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mass | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 subsided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | subside | past | the smoke | presently property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the coals | with heat; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | smoke | a great mass of melted iron | forth property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Theme | |||
| 4 | melt | participle | half compound | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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