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title: The Wise Woman was standing in the doorway of her smoke-begrimed dwe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Wise Woman was standing in the doorway of her smoke-begrimed dwelling. Who acts: Wise Woman. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 50

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The Wise Woman was standing in the doorway of her smoke-begrimed dwelling.

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**Who acts:** Wise Woman · **What happens:** stand, begrime · **To what, where:** doorway

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wise Woman), 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:pg66819:11:50
# text = The Wise Woman was standing in the doorway of her smoke-begrimed dwelling.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	begrimed	begrime	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · progressive | the Wise Woman |  |  | the doorway of Woman's begrimed dwelling |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location |
| 2 | **begrime** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | smoke *compound* | tree rules |

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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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