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title: Soon the house was filled with a mighty steam; the Smith was lost to… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon the house was filled with a mighty steam; the Smith was lost to view in the dense hot vapor. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 108

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Soon the house was filled with a mighty steam; the Smith was lost to view in the dense hot vapor.

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**What happens:** fill, lose, view · **To what, where:** house, Smith, dense hot vapor

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:20:108
# text = Soon the house was filled with a mighty steam; the Smith was lost to view in the dense hot vapor.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	view	view	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	vapor	vapor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the house |  |  |  | with a mighty steam; soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with steam=Instrument |
| 2 | **lose** | past · passive |  | the Smith |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **view** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the dense hot vapor |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: 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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