The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 41

Although ill-favored, his face was not wholly bad, for his father had been a freeman and a hero.

Who acts: face, father · What happens: favor, not be, be

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, father), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	4 favored	mark
2	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 favored	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 ill	punct
4	favored	favor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bad	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 favored	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bad	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bad	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 bad	advmod
10	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	11 bad	advmod
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 freeman	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	19 freeman	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 freeman	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 freeman	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 freeman	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 freeman	det
19	freeman	freeman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bad	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hero	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hero	det
22	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 freeman	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	favor	participle	slave's face not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	past	slave's face	bad, wholly property	tree rules
3	is	past · perfect	slave's father	for a freeman and a hero; a hero conj	tree rules

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 41