The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 73
I understand,” answered the woman; and she closed her toothless jaws tightly, restraining her anger.
Who acts: I, woman · What happens: understand, answer, close, restrain, anger · To what, where: woman, toothless jaws, anger · 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 understand | nsubj |
| 2 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 understand | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 closed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 closed | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 closed | nsubj |
| 11 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 13 | toothless | toothless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 jaws | amod |
| 14 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 closed | obj |
| 15 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 11 closed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 restraining | punct |
| 17 | restraining | restrain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 closed | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 anger | nmod:poss |
| 19 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 restraining | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | close in a quote | past | woman | woman's toothless jaws | tightly property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient | |||
| 4 | restrain in a quote | gerund | woman not said here | woman's anger | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer anger=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | anger in a quote | woman | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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