The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 42
Then he checked the bellows and smothered the flames and raked ashes upon the fire until the red coals slumbered unseen at the mouth of the forge.
Who acts: Smith, red coals · What happens: check, smother, rake, slumber · To what, where: bellows, flames, ashes, fire, mouth
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 (Smith, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 checked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 checked | nsubj |
| 3 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bellows | det |
| 5 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 checked | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 smothered | cc |
| 7 | smothered | smother | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 checked | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flames | det |
| 9 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 smothered | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 raked | cc |
| 11 | raked | rake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 checked | conj |
| 12 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 raked | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raked | obl |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 slumbered | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coals | det |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coals | amod |
| 19 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 slumbered | nsubj |
| 20 | slumbered | slumber | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 raked | advcl |
| 21 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 slumbered | xcomp |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 mouth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mouth | det |
| 24 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slumbered | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 forge | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forge | det |
| 27 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mouth | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 checked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | past | Smith | the bellows | then | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bellow=Theme | |||
| 2 | smother | past | Smith not said here | the flames | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flame=Destination | ||||
| 3 | rake | past | Smith not said here | ashes | the fire | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ash=Theme upon fire=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | slumber | past | the red coals | the mouth of the forge | unseen property | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=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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