The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 57
These words made Iron feel much braver; and they were spoken in tones so sweet and persuasive that he was almost minded to obey without another word.
Who acts: words, Iron, Smith · What happens: make, feel, speak, be, obey · To what, where: Iron, words · 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 (words, Iron, 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 braver | advmod |
| 7 | braver | brave | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 feel | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoken | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spoken | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spoken | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoken | aux:pass |
| 12 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tones | case |
| 14 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spoken | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 sweet | advmod |
| 16 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tones | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 persuasive | cc |
| 18 | persuasive | persuasive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sweet | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 minded | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 minded | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 minded | cop |
| 22 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 23 minded | advmod |
| 23 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sweet | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 obey | mark |
| 25 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 minded | xcomp |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 word | case |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 word | det |
| 28 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 obey | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this words | Iron | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | Iron not said here | brave property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past · passive | words = word | tones obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Smith | almost, minded property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | obey | to-infinitive | Smith not said here | without another word | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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