The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 90
“I will help him make a mixture,” this wicked insect muttered.
Who acts: wicked insect, Smith · What happens: help, make, mutter · To what, where: Smith, mixture · 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 (wicked insect, 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 | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 muttered | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mixture | det |
| 8 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 insect | det |
| 12 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 insect | amod |
| 13 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 muttered | nsubj |
| 14 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | future | this wicked insect = insect | Smith | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive | Smith not said here | a mixture | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mixture=Product | ||||
| 3 | mutter speech: assert | past | this wicked insect | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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