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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 132

So he grasped the proffered hand, gently, warmly; he embraced his friend twice, three times, as had been his wont whenever fondness prompted his warm heart.

Who acts: heart, fondness · What happens: grasp, proffer, embrace, be, prompt · To what, where: proffered hand, friend, warm heart

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 (heart, fondness), 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

advmodnsubjdetamodobjpunctadvmodpunctconjpunctnsubjconjnmod:possobjadvmodpunctnummodobl:unmarkedpunctcaseauxcopnmod:possparataxisadvmodnsubjadvclnmod:possamodobjpunctrootSoADVhePRONgraspedVERBtheDETprofferedVERBhandNOUN,PUNCTgentlyADV,PUNCTwarmlyADV;PUNCThePRONembracedVERBhisPRONfriendNOUNtwiceADV,PUNCTthreeNUMtimesNOUN,PUNCTasADPhadAUXbeenAUXhisPRONwontNOUNwheneverADVfondnessNOUNpromptedVERBhisPRONwarmADJheartNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 graspedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 graspednsubj
3graspedgraspVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 handdet
5profferedprofferVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 handamod
6handhandNOUNNumber=Sing3 graspedobj
7,,PUNCT_8 gentlypunct
8gentlygentlyADV_3 graspedadvmod
9,,PUNCT_10 warmlypunct
10warmlywarmlyADV_8 gentlyconj
11;;PUNCT_13 embracedpunct
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 embracednsubj
13embracedembraceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 graspedconj
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 friendnmod:poss
15friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing13 embracedobj
16twicetwiceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult13 embracedadvmod
17,,PUNCT_19 timespunct
18threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 timesnummod
19timestimeNOUNNumber=Plur13 embracedobl:unmarked
20,,PUNCT_25 wontpunct
21asasADP_25 wontcase
22hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 wontaux
23beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 wontcop
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 wontnmod:poss
25wontwontNOUNNumber=Sing13 embracedparataxis
26wheneverwheneverADVPronType=Rel28 promptedadvmod
27fondnessfondnessNOUNNumber=Sing28 promptednsubj
28promptedpromptVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 wontadvcl
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 heartnmod:poss
30warmwarmADJDegree=Pos31 heartamod
31heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing28 promptedobj
32..PUNCT_3 graspedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1grasppastheartthe proffered handgently propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
2profferparticiplevn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3embracepastheartheart's friendtimetwice propertyvn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent
4ispast · perfectas heart's wont; heart nmod:posstree rules
5promptpastfondnessheart's warm heartwhenever propertyvn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition heart=Patient

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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