The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 54
“No! your brother does not wish to harm you,— Willingly he never would alarm you.
Who acts: brother, Smith · What happens: not wish, harm, not alarm · To what, where: you
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 (brother, Smith), 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 | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 wish | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wish | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 wish | advmod |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 harm | mark |
| 10 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 harm | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 alarm | punct |
| 14 | Willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 18 alarm | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 alarm | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 alarm | advmod |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 alarm | aux |
| 18 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wish | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 alarm | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish in a quote | present · do-support | your brother | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | harm not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | your brother not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not alarm in a quote | would | Smith | you | willingly property | 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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