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title: “Surely, the lad who cries for his mother should be comforted,” said… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Surely, the lad who cries for his mother should be comforted,” said the Mistress derisively. Who acts: lad, Mistress. 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 79

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“Surely, the lad who cries for his mother should be comforted,” said the Mistress derisively.

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**Who acts:** lad, Mistress · **What happens:** cry, comfort, say · **To what, where:** lad · **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 (lad, Mistress), 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:pg66819:12:79
# text = “Surely, the lad who cries for his mother should be comforted,” said the Mistress derisively.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	derisively	derisively	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present | the lad |  |  |  |  | for Pohyola's mother | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for mother=Recipient |
| 2 | **comfort** *in a quote* | should · passive |  | the lad |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Mistress |  |  |  |  | derisively *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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