The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 130
The generous Smith could not cherish ill-feeling in his heart.
Who acts: generous Smith · What happens: not cherish, feel
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (generous Smith), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Smith | det |
| 2 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Smith | amod |
| 3 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cherish | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cherish | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 cherish | advmod |
| 6 | cherish | cherish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feeling | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ill | punct |
| 9 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 cherish | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feeling | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cherish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cherish | could | the generous Smith | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | feel | gerund | in Wainola's heart | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in heart=Attribute |
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.
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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