The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 67
The bellows roared, the Smith shouted, and Fire leaped joyfully out of the ashes and threw his arms around his helpless younger brother.
Who acts: bellows, Smith, Fire · What happens: roar, shout, leap, throw · To what, where: ashes, arms
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 (bellows, Smith, Fire), 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 bellows | det |
| 2 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roared | nsubj |
| 3 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shouted | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Smith | det |
| 6 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shouted | nsubj |
| 7 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roared | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leaped | cc |
| 10 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 leaped | nsubj |
| 11 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roared | conj |
| 12 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 11 leaped | advmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 ashes | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ashes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ashes | det |
| 16 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leaped | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 threw | cc |
| 18 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roared | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arms | nmod:poss |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 threw | obj |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 brother | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 brother | amod |
| 24 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 brother | amod |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | the bellows | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | the Smith | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leap | past | Fire | the ashes | joyfully property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out ash=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | throw | past | the bellows not said here | Smith's arms | around Smith's helpless younger brother | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around brother=Destination |
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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