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title: My mother, Lokka, will welcome you; she will serve you and prepare t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: My mother, Lokka, will welcome you; she will serve you and prepare toothsome victuals for your meals. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 7

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My mother, Lokka, will welcome you; she will serve you and prepare toothsome victuals for your meals.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** welcome, serve, prepare · **To what, where:** you, toothsome victuals

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg66819:13:7
# text = My mother, Lokka, will welcome you; she will serve you and prepare toothsome victuals for your meals.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Lokka	Lokka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	toothsome	toothsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	victuals	victual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **welcome** | future | My mother | you |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **serve** | future | mother | you |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute |
| 3 | **prepare** | infinitive | mother *not said here* | toothsome victuals |  |  |  | for your meals | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent victual=Product for meal=Beneficiary |

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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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