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title: The smoke was rising from the roof-hole, Dame Lokka was preparing th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The smoke was rising from the roof-hole, Dame Lokka was preparing the evening meal, the good sister, Anniki, was watching at the door. Who acts: smoke, Dame. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 34

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The smoke was rising from the roof-hole, Dame Lokka was preparing the evening meal, the good sister, Anniki, was watching at the door.

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**Who acts:** smoke, Dame · **What happens:** rise, prepare, watch · **To what, where:** roof hole, evening meal, door

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smoke, Dame), 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:pg66819:28:34
# text = The smoke was rising from the roof-hole, Dame Lokka was preparing the evening meal, the good sister, Anniki, was watching at the door.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	Lokka	Lokka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Anniki	Anniki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past · progressive | the smoke |  |  | the roof hole |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hole=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **prepare** | past · progressive | Dame | the evening meal |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 3 | **watch** | past · progressive | Dame *not said here* |  |  | the door |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |

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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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