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title: In doing this he has merely exercised the time-honored right of poet… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: In doing this he has merely exercised the time-honored right of poets and story-tellers—the right to make new cloth out of old. Who acts: weaver. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 12

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In doing this he has merely exercised the time-honored right of poets and story-tellers—the right to make new cloth out of old.

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**Who acts:** weaver · **What happens:** do, exercise, honor, make · **To what, where:** this, honored right, new cloth, old

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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 (weaver), 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:pg66819:1:12
# text = In doing this he has merely exercised the time-honored right of poets and story-tellers—the right to make new cloth out of old.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	exercised	exercise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tellers	teller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund | weaver *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **exercise** | present · perfect | weaver | the honored right of poets and story tellers |  |  |  | the right *obl*; merely *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 3 | **honor** | participle |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | weaver *not said here* | new cloth |  | old |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cloth=Product |

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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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