The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 60
The flames roared, the red coals glowed upon the sand, the juicy morsels sizzled loudly and gave forth savory odors very pleasant indeed to the nostrils.
Who acts: flames, red coals · What happens: roar, glow, sizzle, give · To what, where: sand, juicy morsels, savory odors
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames, red coals), 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 flames | det |
| 2 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roared | nsubj |
| 3 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 glowed | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coals | det |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coals | amod |
| 7 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glowed | nsubj |
| 8 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roared | conj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 sand | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sand | det |
| 11 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glowed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 morsels | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 morsels | det |
| 14 | juicy | juicy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 morsels | amod |
| 15 | morsels | morsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sand | appos |
| 16 | sizzled | sizzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 morsels | acl |
| 17 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 16 sizzled | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 glowed | conj |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 gave | advmod |
| 21 | savory | savory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 odors | amod |
| 22 | odors | odor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 pleasant | advmod |
| 24 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 odors | amod |
| 25 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 pleasant | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 nostrils | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 nostrils | det |
| 28 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pleasant | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | the flames | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | glow | past | the red coals | the sand | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sand=Location | ||||
| 3 | sizzle | participle | the juicy morsels not said here | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the red coals not said here | savory odors | forth property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent odor=Theme |
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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