The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 10
Then suddenly, from among the poplars, came well-remembered sounds—the sound of a hammer, cling-clanging upon an anvil, and the melodious tones of a manly voice singing in unison therewith.
Who acts: poplars, sound, melodious tones · What happens: come, remember, clang, sing, intonate · To what, where: remembered sounds, anvil, unison, manly voice
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poplars, sound, melodious tones), 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 | 7 poplars | advmod |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 poplars | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 poplars | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 poplars | case |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 poplars | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 poplars | det |
| 7 | poplars | poplar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 poplars | punct |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 remembered | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 12 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sounds | amod |
| 13 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 sound | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sounds | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hammer | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hammer | det |
| 19 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sound | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 clanging | punct |
| 21 | cling | cling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clanging | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 cling | punct |
| 23 | clanging | clang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 sound | acl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 anvil | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 anvil | det |
| 26 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clanging | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 tones | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tones | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tones | det |
| 30 | melodious | melodious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tones | amod |
| 31 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sound | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 voice | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 voice | det |
| 34 | manly | manly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 voice | amod |
| 35 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tones | nmod |
| 36 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 tones | acl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 unison | case |
| 38 | unison | unison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 singing | obl |
| 39 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 36 singing | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the poplars | remembered sounds and the sound of a hammer the melodious tones of a manly voice | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remember | participle | well property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | clang | gerund | the sound of a hammer the melodious tones of a manly voice not said here | a anvil | cling compound | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon anvil=Location | |||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | the melodious tones of a manly voice not said here | unison | therewith property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in unison=Location | |||
| 5 | intonate | a manly voice | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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