The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 76
Angry and half-despairing, he seized the lever of the bellows in his own hands, he put his own naked shoulder to the work, and again the flames leaped up, the fire glowed, the caldron quaked and trembled in the terrible heat.
Who acts: man, flames, fire · What happens: despair, seize, put, leap up, glow, quake · To what, where: lever, own naked shoulder, caldron, terrible heat
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, flames, fire), 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 | Angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seized | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 despairing | cc |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 despairing | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 half | punct |
| 5 | despairing | despair | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Angry | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seized | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seized | nsubj |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lever | det |
| 10 | lever | lever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bellows | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bellows | det |
| 13 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lever | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hands | amod |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bellows | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shoulder | amod |
| 23 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shoulder | amod |
| 24 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 work | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 work | det |
| 27 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 leaped | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 leaped | cc |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 leaped | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 flames | det |
| 32 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 leaped | nsubj |
| 33 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seized | conj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 leaped | compound:prt |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 glowed | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 fire | det |
| 37 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 glowed | nsubj |
| 38 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 leaped | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 caldron | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 caldron | det |
| 41 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 glowed | obj |
| 42 | quaked | quake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 caldron | acl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 trembled | cc |
| 44 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 quaked | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 heat | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 heat | det |
| 47 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 heat | amod |
| 48 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 trembled | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despair | gerund | man not said here | half compound | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | man | the lever of the bellows in man's own hands | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | past | man | man's own naked shoulder | to the work | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Goal | |||
| 4 | leap up | participle | the flames | again | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | glow | past | the fire | the caldron | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent caldron=Theme | ||||
| 6 | quake | participle | the caldron not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | tremble | participle | the terrible heat | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heat=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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