The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 93
Tongues of blue flame encircled it, sheets of white flame enveloped it, a sound like the humming of bees issued from its broad mouth.
Who acts: Tongues, sheets, bees · What happens: encircle, envelop, issue, hum · To what, where: fire, bees, broad mouth
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 (Tongues, sheets, bees), 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 | Tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 encircled | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 flame | case |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flame | amod |
| 4 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tongues | nmod |
| 5 | encircled | encircle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 encircled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 enveloped | punct |
| 8 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 enveloped | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 flame | case |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flame | amod |
| 11 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sheets | nmod |
| 12 | enveloped | envelop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 encircled | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 enveloped | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sound | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enveloped | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 humming | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 humming | det |
| 19 | humming | humming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sound | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bees | case |
| 21 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 humming | nmod |
| 22 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bees | acl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 mouth | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mouth | amod |
| 26 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 issued | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 encircled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encircle | past | Tongues of blue flame | fire | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | envelop | past | sheets of white flame | fire | a sound like the humming of bees obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | issue | participle | bees not said here | fire's broad mouth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hum | bees | nom humming «event intransitive»: of=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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