The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 16
“That he shall never do!” cried the old woman, fiercely, savagely.
Who acts: That, old woman · What happens: not do, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, old 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fiercely | punct |
| 14 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 9 cried | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 savagely | punct |
| 16 | savagely | savagely | ADV | _ | 9 cried | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | shall | That | man nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the old woman | fiercely, savagely property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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