The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 120
But the Smith was filled with grief, and the music of his anvil became a jangling discord.
Who acts: music · What happens: fill, become, jangle · To what, where: Smith, jangling discord
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 filled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Smith | det |
| 3 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | aux:pass |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 grief | case |
| 7 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 music | det |
| 11 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 anvil | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 anvil | nmod:poss |
| 14 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 music | nmod |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 discord | det |
| 17 | jangling | jangle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 discord | amod |
| 18 | discord | discord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the Smith | with grief | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with grief=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the music of music's anvil | a jangling discord | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | jangle | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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