The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 34
The smoke was rising from the roof-hole, Dame Lokka was preparing the evening meal, the good sister, Anniki, was watching at the door.
Who acts: smoke, Dame · What happens: rise, prepare, watch · To what, where: roof hole, evening meal, door
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smoke, Dame), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 smoke | det |
| 2 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rising | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rising | aux |
| 4 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hole | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 7 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hole | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 roof | punct |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rising | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 preparing | punct |
| 11 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 preparing | nsubj |
| 12 | Lokka | Lokka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Dame | flat |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 preparing | aux |
| 14 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rising | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 meal | det |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meal | compound |
| 17 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 preparing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sister | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sister | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sister | amod |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meal | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Anniki | punct |
| 23 | Anniki | Anniki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sister | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 watching | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 watching | aux |
| 26 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 preparing | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 door | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 door | det |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 watching | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rising | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past · progressive | the smoke | the roof hole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hole=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | prepare | past · progressive | Dame | the evening meal | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | ||||
| 3 | watch | past · progressive | Dame not said here | the door | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=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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