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title: “That is good,” said the dwarf; “but what omens of good or evil are… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is good,” said the dwarf; “but what omens of good or evil are yours?” Who acts: That. 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 97

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“That is good,” said the dwarf; “but what omens of good or evil are yours?”

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** dwarf, yours · **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 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 (That), 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:pg66819:13:97
# text = “That is good,” said the dwarf; “but what omens of good or evil are yours?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
14	omens	omen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  | the dwarf |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | yours |  |  |  | what *nsubj*; omens of good *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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