The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 68

Yet he answered her with becoming gentleness—for was she not the mother of the Maid of Beauty?

Who acts: brain, woman · What happens: answer, become, not be · To what, where: woman, gentleness

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, 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	obj
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	6 becoming	mark
6	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 answered	advcl
7	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 becoming	xcomp
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 mother	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	14 mother	case
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mother	cop
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mother	nsubj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 mother	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 becoming	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Maid	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Maid	det
17	Maid	Maid	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 mother	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Beauty	case
19	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Maid	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	brain		woman		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
2	become	gerund	brain not said here	gentleness			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	not is	past	woman			for the mother; of the Maid of Beauty	tree rules

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 68

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 68