The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 67
Much had he suffered from this woman’s greed and cunning; painfully was he stung by her bitter words.
Who acts: brain, bitter words, woman · What happens: have, suffer, sting, word · To what, where: greed, brain
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 (brain, bitter words, woman), 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 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 suffered | nsubj |
| 4 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 greed | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 greed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 woman | case |
| 9 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suffered | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cunning | cc |
| 11 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 greed | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 stung | punct |
| 13 | painfully | painfully | ADV | _ | 16 stung | advmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stung | aux:pass |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stung | nsubj |
| 16 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | parataxis |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 words | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 words | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 words | amod |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stung | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | suffer | past | brain | this woman's greed and cunning | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | sting | past · passive | woman's bitter words | brain | painfully property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | word | woman | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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