The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 22
“I will hedge him about with prison walls and perils through which he can never escape.
Who acts: spinner · What happens: hedge, not escape · To what, where: spinner, prison walls
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 (spinner), 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 | _ | 4 hedge | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hedge | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hedge | aux |
| 4 | hedge | hedge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hedge | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 hedge | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 walls | case |
| 8 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walls | compound |
| 9 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hedge | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 perils | cc |
| 11 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 walls | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 escape | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 escape | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 escape | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 escape | advmod |
| 17 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 walls | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hedge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hedge in a quote | future | the spinner = spinner | spinner | with prison walls and perils; about property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not escape in a quote | can | spinner | prison walls and perils | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location |
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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