The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 85
All day and all night and far into another day the master Smith toiled and sang, blew his great bellows, and threw fuel into the furnace.
Who acts: master, smoke · What happens: toil, sing, blow, throw, bellow · To what, where: great bellows, fuel, furnace
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 (master, smoke), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 toiled | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 night | cc |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 day | cc |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 day | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 master | det |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 toiled | nsubj |
| 13 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 master | appos |
| 14 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sang | cc |
| 16 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 toiled | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 blew | punct |
| 18 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 toiled | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bellows | nmod:poss |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bellows | amod |
| 21 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 blew | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 threw | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 threw | cc |
| 24 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 toiled | parataxis |
| 25 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 threw | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 furnace | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 furnace | det |
| 28 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 threw | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 toiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toil | past | the master | day | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the master not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | blow | past | the master not said here | smoke's great bellows | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | fuel | into the furnace result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer fuel=Theme into furnace=Result | ||||
| 5 | bellow | smoke | nom bellow «communication intransitive»: poss=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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