The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 32
Fear of his raging brother made him lurk in lonely places, made him cover up his face.
Who acts: Fear, youngest · What happens: rage, make, lurk, cover up, fear · To what, where: youngest, lonely places, face, raging brother
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 (Fear, youngest), 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 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 brother | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | raging | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fear | nmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | lurk | lurk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 places | case |
| 10 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 places | amod |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lurk | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 made | xcomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 cover | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cover | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | make | past | Fear of Fear's raging brother | youngest = young | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lurk | infinitive | youngest = young not said here | lonely places | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Fear of Fear's raging brother not said here | youngest = young | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cover up | infinitive | youngest = young not said here | Fear's face | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination | ||||
| 6 | fear | Fear's raging brother | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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