The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 19

Next older than he was Fire, a raging, dangerous fellow when free, but loving and faithful when held in bonds.

Who acts: sun · What happens: be, rage, hold · To what, where: bonds

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 (sun), 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	Next	next	ADV	_	2 older	advmod
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	6 Fire	case
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Fire	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Fire	cop
6	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 older	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fellow	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fellow	det
9	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 fellow	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 raging	punct
11	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fellow	amod
12	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Fire	appos
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 free	advmod
14	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fellow	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 loving	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 loving	cc
17	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 free	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 faithful	cc
19	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 loving	conj
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 held	advmod
21	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 loving	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 bonds	case
23	bonds	bond	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 held	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 older	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sun		than Fire; a raging dangerous fellow appos	tree rules
2	rage	gerund				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold	participle	sun not said here	bonds		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bond=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 19