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title: From the caldron a mist was slowly rising, hot, pungent, fog-like; w… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: From the caldron a mist was slowly rising, hot, pungent, fog-like; within it, the magic mixture could be heard bubbling, seething, hissing. Who acts: mist. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 109

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From the caldron a mist was slowly rising, hot, pungent, fog-like; within it, the magic mixture could be heard bubbling, seething, hissing.

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**Who acts:** mist · **What happens:** rise, hear, seethe, hiss · **To what, where:** caldron, magic mixture

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:10:109
# text = From the caldron a mist was slowly rising, hot, pungent, fog-like; within it, the magic mixture could be heard bubbling, seething, hissing.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	pungent	pungent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mixture	mixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
27	bubbling	bubbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	seething	seethe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	hissing	hiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past · progressive | a mist | the caldron within mist *not said here* |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location caldron=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | could · passive |  | the magic mixture |  | the caldron within mist |  | bubbling *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seethe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **hiss** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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