The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 121
“O Iron,” he cried, “it was not for this that I caused you to leave your hiding-places in the hills and bogs!
Who acts: Iron, discord, this, that · What happens: cry, not be, cause, leave · To what, where: that, you, hiding places, hills · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Iron, discord, this, that), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Iron | discourse |
| 3 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Iron | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Iron | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caused | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 caused | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 this | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 this | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 this | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 caused | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 caused | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 caused | nsubj |
| 17 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 caused | iobj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 leave | mark |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 caused | xcomp |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 places | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 places | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 hiding | punct |
| 24 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 leave | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hills | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hills | det |
| 27 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 leave | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bogs | cc |
| 29 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hills | conj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Iron | music nsubj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | past | discord | for this | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cause in a quote | past | this | that | you | I nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 4 | leave in a quote | to-infinitive | that not said here | your hiding places | the hills and bogs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme in hill=Location |
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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