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title: The generous Smith could not cherish ill-feeling in his heart. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The generous Smith could not cherish ill-feeling in his heart. Who acts: generous Smith. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 130

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The generous Smith could not cherish ill-feeling in his heart.

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**Who acts:** generous Smith · **What happens:** not cherish, feel

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (generous Smith), 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:pg66819:12:130
# text = The generous Smith could not cherish ill-feeling in his heart.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	cherish	cherish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cherish** | could | the generous Smith |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in Wainola's heart | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in heart=Attribute |

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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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