The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 28
All the kettles were singing, all the stewpans were hissing on the glowing coals.
Who acts: kettles, stewpans · What happens: sing, hiss, glow · To what, where: glowing coals
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kettles, stewpans), 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 | 3 kettles | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kettles | det |
| 3 | kettles | kettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 singing | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 singing | aux |
| 5 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hissing | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 stewpans | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stewpans | det |
| 9 | stewpans | stewpan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hissing | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hissing | aux |
| 11 | hissing | hiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 singing | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 coals | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coals | det |
| 14 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 coals | amod |
| 15 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hissing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 singing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | all kettles | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hiss | past · progressive | all stewpans | the glowing coals | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coal=Location | ||||
| 3 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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