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title: The weaver of tales, who now relates these adventures to modern read… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The weaver of tales, who now relates these adventures to modern readers, has chosen to deviate widely from the methods of the ancient story-tellers. Who acts: tales. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 10

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The weaver of tales, who now relates these adventures to modern readers, has chosen to deviate widely from the methods of the ancient story-tellers.

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**Who acts:** tales · **What happens:** relate, choose, deviate · **To what, where:** adventures, modern readers, weaver

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:1:10
# text = The weaver of tales, who now relates these adventures to modern readers, has chosen to deviate widely from the methods of the ancient story-tellers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weaver	weaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	relates	relate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	deviate	deviate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	methods	method	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	tellers	teller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | present | tales | this adventures | modern readers |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic to reader=Recipient |
| 2 | **choose** | present · perfect · passive |  | the weaver of tales |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deviate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | from the methods of the ancient story tellers; widely *property* | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from method=Co-Theme |

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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.

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**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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