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title: Presently, when the smoke subsided and the coals were white with hea… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently, when the smoke subsided and the coals were white with heat, he drew forth a great mass of half-melted iron. Who acts: smoke, coals. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 75

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Presently, when the smoke subsided and the coals were white with heat, he drew forth a great mass of half-melted iron.

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**Who acts:** smoke, coals · **What happens:** subside, be, draw, melt · **To what, where:** great mass

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smoke, coals), 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:pg66819:24:75
# text = Presently, when the smoke subsided and the coals were white with heat, he drew forth a great mass of half-melted iron.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	subsided	subside	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **subside** | past | the smoke |  |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the coals |  |  |  |  | with heat; white *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **draw** | past | smoke | a great mass of melted iron |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Theme |
| 4 | **melt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | half *compound* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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