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title: The flames roared, the red coals glowed upon the sand, the juicy mor… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The flames roared, the red coals glowed upon the sand, the juicy morsels sizzled loudly and gave forth savory odors very pleasant indeed to the nostrils. Who acts: flames, red coals. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its dependency tree and
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 60

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The flames roared, the red coals glowed upon the sand, the juicy morsels sizzled loudly and gave forth savory odors very pleasant indeed to the nostrils.

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**Who acts:** flames, red coals · **What happens:** roar, glow, sizzle, give · **To what, where:** sand, juicy morsels, savory odors

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames, red 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:pg66819:34:60
# text = The flames roared, the red coals glowed upon the sand, the juicy morsels sizzled loudly and gave forth savory odors very pleasant indeed to the nostrils.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	juicy	juicy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	morsels	morsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
16	sizzled	sizzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	savory	savory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	odors	odor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | past | the flames |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **glow** | past | the red coals |  |  | the sand |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sand=Location |
| 3 | **sizzle** | participle |  | the juicy morsels *not said here* |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | the red coals *not said here* | savory odors |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent odor=Theme |

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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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