The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 11
“Why have you treated me so unkindly?
What happens: treat · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 5 treated | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 treated | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 treated | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 treated | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 unkindly | advmod |
| 8 | unkindly | unkindly | ADV | _ | 5 treated | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | me obj; unkindly 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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