The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 67
Why did the grim Wizard of the Rock thus undo his own work?
Who acts: grim Wizard, wizard · What happens: undo, work · To what, where: own work
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 (grim Wizard, wizard), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 undo | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 undo | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Wizard | det |
| 4 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Wizard | amod |
| 5 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 undo | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Rock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rock | det |
| 8 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Wizard | nmod |
| 9 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 undo | advmod |
| 10 | undo | undo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 work | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 work | amod |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 undo | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 undo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undo | past · do-support | the grim Wizard of the Rock | wizard's own work | thus property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | |||
| 2 | work | wizard | nom work «act 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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