The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 26
“Nay,” said Ilmarinen, “she is not the sort of woman to feel sorrow; her heart is too hard to be crushed so easily.”
Who acts: Ilmarinen, cold, heart · What happens: say, not be, feel, be, crush · To what, where: sort, sorrow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ilmarinen, cold, heart), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sort | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sort | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sort | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sort | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 sort | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sort | det |
| 13 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sort | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 feel | mark |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sort | acl |
| 18 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feel | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 hard | punct |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hard | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 hard | cop |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 hard | advmod |
| 24 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 crushed | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 crushed | aux:pass |
| 27 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 hard | xcomp |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 easily | advmod |
| 29 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 27 crushed | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ilmarinen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | cold | the sort | of woman | tree rules | |||
| 3 | feel in a quote | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | sorrow | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | cold's heart | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | crush in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | cold's heart not said here | easily property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
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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