The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 21

And as he sang, the copper mountain began to tremble and the doors of the cavern were shaken.

Who acts: hero, copper mountain · What happens: sing, begin, tremble, shake · To what, where: doors

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, copper mountain), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 sang	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountain	det
7	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	compound
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tremble	mark
11	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shaken	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 doors	det
14	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 shaken	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 cavern	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cavern	det
17	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 doors	nmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shaken	aux:pass
19	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tremble	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	hero		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	begin	past	the copper mountain		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tremble	to-infinitive	the copper mountain not said here		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shake	past · passive		the doors of the cavern	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient

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 Flight, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 21