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title: The Mistress went on with her bantering; she laid salt on the poor m… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mistress went on with her bantering; she laid salt on the poor man’s wounds and briskly rubbed it in. Who acts: Mistress, poor man. 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 60

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The Mistress went on with her bantering; she laid salt on the poor man’s wounds and briskly rubbed it in.

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**Who acts:** Mistress, poor man · **What happens:** go on, lay, rub in, wound · **To what, where:** salt, wounds

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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 (Mistress, poor man), 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:pg66819:12:60
# text = The Mistress went on with her bantering; she laid salt on the poor man’s wounds and briskly rubbed it in.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bantering	bantering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	briskly	briskly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | the Mistress |  |  |  |  | with Mistress's bantering | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | past | Mistress | salt |  | the poor man's wounds |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme on wound=Destination |
| 3 | **rub in** | past | the Mistress *not said here* | salt |  |  |  | briskly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **wound** |  | the poor man |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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