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title: Showers of red sparks issued from the chimney and flew upward to the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Showers of red sparks issued from the chimney and flew upward to the sky. Who acts: Showers. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 27

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Showers of red sparks issued from the chimney and flew upward to the sky.

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**Who acts:** Showers · **What happens:** issue, fly · **To what, where:** red sparks, chimney

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Showers), 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:pg66819:11:27
# text = Showers of red sparks issued from the chimney and flew upward to the sky.
1	Showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
10	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | participle |  | red sparks *not said here* |  | the chimney |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past | Showers of red sparks |  |  |  |  | to the sky *result*; upward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sky=Result |

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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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