The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 8
What had he seen to give him pause, to cause him to be frightened?
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: see, give, pause, cause, frighten · To what, where: Ilmarinen
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), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 seen | obj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seen | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | pause | pause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cause | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cause | mark |
| 11 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pause | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cause | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 frightened | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 frightened | aux:pass |
| 15 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cause | advcl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | Ilmarinen | What obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | Ilmarinen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pause | infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cause | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | Ilmarinen | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | frighten | to-infinitive · passive | Ilmarinen not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-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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