The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 9
A worthless fellow he was, ill-favored, ill-natured, selfish, and unkind.
What happens: favor · To what, where: worthless fellow
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fellow | det |
| 2 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 favored | punct |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 favored | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ill | punct |
| 9 | favored | favor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fellow | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 natured | punct |
| 11 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 natured | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ill | punct |
| 13 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 favored | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 selfish | punct |
| 15 | selfish | selfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fellow | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 unkind | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 unkind | cc |
| 18 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favor | participle | a worthless fellow and selfish not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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