The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 163

Had it not been for a wicked hornet, Iron would never have harmed me—would never have harmed any one.

Who acts: Iron · What happens: have, not be, not harm · To what, where: grudge, me, wicked hornet

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iron), 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	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Had	obj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hornet	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 hornet	cop
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 hornet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hornet	det
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hornet	amod
8	hornet	hornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 harmed	nsubj:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 harmed	punct
10	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 harmed	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 harmed	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 harmed	advmod
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 harmed	aux
14	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 hornet	acl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 harmed	obj
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 harmed	punct
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 harmed	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 harmed	advmod
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 harmed	aux
20	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Had	xcomp
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 harmed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past		grudge		tree rules
2	not is	participle			for a wicked hornet	tree rules
3	not harm	would · perfect	Iron	me		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
4	not harm	would · perfect · passive		a wicked hornet	any one obj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer one=Result

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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 163

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 163