The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 73
But the tongs pinched him worse than before, and the hammer beat him still harder, and the Smith answered: “Not so, not so!
Who acts: tongs, hammer, Smith · What happens: pinch, beat, answer · To what, where: Smith
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 (tongs, hammer, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 pinched | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tongs | det |
| 3 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pinched | nsubj |
| 4 | pinched | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pinched | obj |
| 6 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 pinched | xcomp |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 before | case |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 worse | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beat | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hammer | det |
| 12 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beat | nsubj |
| 13 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pinched | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beat | obj |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 harder | advmod |
| 16 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 beat | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 answered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 answered | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Smith | det |
| 20 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 answered | nsubj |
| 21 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pinched | parataxis |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 so | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 so | punct |
| 24 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 so | advmod |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 answered | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 so | punct |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 so | advmod |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 so | conj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 pinched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinch | past | the tongs | Smith | bad property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | beat | past | the hammer | Smith | still | hard property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Smith | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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