The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 17
He blew the bellows with might and main till the whole smithy trembled and groaned and the flames leaped up to lick the sky.
Who acts: wizard, whole smithy, flames · What happens: blow, tremble, groan, leap up, lick · To what, where: bellows, sky
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 (wizard, whole smithy, flames), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 blew | nsubj |
| 2 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bellows | det |
| 4 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blew | obj |
| 5 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 8 main | mark |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 main | aux |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 main | cc |
| 8 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blew | advcl |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 trembled | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 smithy | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 smithy | amod |
| 12 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trembled | nsubj |
| 13 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 main | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 groaned | cc |
| 15 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 trembled | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leaped | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flames | det |
| 18 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leaped | nsubj |
| 19 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 groaned | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 leaped | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 lick | mark |
| 22 | lick | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 leaped | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sky | det |
| 24 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lick | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | wizard | the bellows | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tremble | past | the whole smithy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | groan | past | the whole smithy not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leap up | participle | the flames | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lick | to-infinitive | the flames not said here | the sky | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sky=Source |
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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