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title: Then she laughed a laugh of triumph, and said; “Lie there, sweet mil… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she laughed a laugh of triumph, and said; “Lie there, sweet mill, until I have need of you again. Who acts: matter, triumph. 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 76

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Then she laughed a laugh of triumph, and said; “Lie there, sweet mill, until I have need of you again.

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**Who acts:** matter, triumph · **What happens:** laugh, say, lie, have, need · **To what, where:** laugh, sweet mill, need, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (matter, triumph), 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:pg66819:11:76
# text = Then she laughed a laugh of triumph, and said; “Lie there, sweet mill, until I have need of you again.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | matter | a laugh of triumph |  |  | then |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | matter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **lie** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | sweet mill |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | matter | need of you |  |  | again |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient |
| 5 | **laugh** |  | triumph |  |  |  |  |  | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **need** *in a quote* |  |  | you |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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