The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 36
He felt that he must not be less generous, and in an instant all his anger vanished.
Who acts: heart · What happens: feel, not be, vanish, anger · To what, where: instant
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 generous | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 generous | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 generous | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 generous | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 generous | cop |
| 8 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 generous | advmod |
| 9 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 vanished | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 vanished | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 instant | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 instant | det |
| 14 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 vanished | obl |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 anger | det:predet |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 anger | nmod:poss |
| 17 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 instant | nmod |
| 18 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | heart | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not is | must | heart | generous, less property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past | heart not said here | a instant heart's anger | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | anger | heart | 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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