The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 119
The wicked hornet, idling under the eaves, rejoiced at the mischief he had wrought.
Who acts: wicked hornet, hornet · What happens: idle, rejoice, wrought · To what, where: eaves, wicked hornet, mischief
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked hornet, hornet), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hornet | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hornet | amod |
| 3 | hornet | hornet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rejoiced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 idling | punct |
| 5 | idling | idle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 hornet | acl |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 eaves | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eaves | det |
| 8 | eaves | eave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 idling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rejoiced | punct |
| 10 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 mischief | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mischief | det |
| 13 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rejoiced | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wrought | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wrought | aux |
| 16 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 mischief | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | idle | gerund | the wicked hornet not said here | the eaves | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rejoice | participle · passive | the wicked hornet | the mischief | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wrought | past · perfect | hornet | the mischief not said here | 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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