The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 15

Once more the flames leaped up within his furnace, once more the black smoke poured from the roof-hole, and once more the song of the anvil rang out cheerily in the morning air.

Who acts: flames, song, anvil · What happens: leap up, pour, ring out, sing · To what, where: black smoke, roof hole, morning air

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames, song, anvil), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 leaped	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flames	det
4	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leaped	nsubj
5	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 leaped	compound:prt
7	within	within	ADP	_	9 furnace	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 furnace	nmod:poss
9	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 more	punct
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 leaped	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	12 more	nsubj
16	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 smoke	acl
17	from	from	ADP	_	21 hole	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hole	det
19	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hole	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 roof	punct
21	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poured	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rang	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rang	cc
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 song	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 song	det
27	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rang	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 anvil	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 anvil	det
30	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 song	nmod
31	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 leaped	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 rang	compound:prt
33	cheerily	cheerily	ADV	_	31 rang	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 air	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 air	det
36	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 air	compound
37	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rang	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leap up	participle	the flames			within Minstrel's furnace	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pour	participle		the black smoke not said here	the roof hole		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from hole=Source
3	ring out	past	the song of the anvil		the morning air	cheerily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
4	sing		the anvil				nom song «communication 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 15