The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 67
“See how the ugly torch flares and sputters, and how the black smoke rises in clouds above it.
Who acts: you, black smoke · What happens: see, rise · To what, where: ugly torch flares, clouds
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, black 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 flares | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flares | det |
| 5 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flares | amod |
| 6 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flares | compound |
| 7 | flares | flare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 See | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sputters | cc |
| 9 | sputters | sputter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flares | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rises | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rises | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 rises | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 smoke | det |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 smoke | amod |
| 15 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rises | nsubj |
| 16 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 See | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 clouds | case |
| 18 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rises | obl |
| 19 | above | above | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 clouds | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the ugly torch flares and sputters | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | rise in a quote | present | the black smoke | clouds above cloud | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cloud=Location |
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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