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title: The smoke grew blacker, it curled round the branch of rowan, the gre… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The smoke grew blacker, it curled round the branch of rowan, the green wood was growing hot amid the heaped-up coals. Who acts: smoke, green wood. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 128

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The smoke grew blacker, it curled round the branch of rowan, the green wood was growing hot amid the heaped-up coals.

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**Who acts:** smoke, green wood · **What happens:** grow, curl, heap · **To what, where:** smoke, branch, hot amid

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smoke, green wood), 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:pg66819:22:128
# text = The smoke grew blacker, it curled round the branch of rowan, the green wood was growing hot amid the heaped-up coals.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	blacker	black	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rowan	rowan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
19	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	heaped	heap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the smoke |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **curl** | participle · passive |  | smoke |  | the branch of rowan |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme round branch=Destination |
| 3 | **grow** | past · progressive | the green wood | hot amid |  |  |  | the up coals *obj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent amid=Beneficiary coal=Product |
| 4 | **heap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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