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title: “Nay,” said Ilmarinen, “she is not the sort of woman to feel sorrow;… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Nay,” said Ilmarinen, “she is not the sort of woman to feel sorrow; her heart is too hard to be crushed so easily.” Who acts: Ilmarinen, cold, heart. 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 c
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 26

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“Nay,” said Ilmarinen, “she is not the sort of woman to feel sorrow; her heart is too hard to be crushed so easily.”

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, cold, heart · **What happens:** say, not be, feel, be, crush · **To what, where:** sort, sorrow · **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 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 (Ilmarinen, cold, heart), 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:pg66819:12:26
# text = “Nay,” said Ilmarinen, “she is not the sort of woman to feel sorrow; her heart is too hard to be crushed so easily.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
18	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | cold | the sort |  |  |  | of woman | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen *not said here* | sorrow |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | cold's heart |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **crush** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | cold's heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |

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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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