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title: The Minstrel heeded not her warning; for never yet had he abandoned… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Minstrel heeded not her warning; for never yet had he abandoned a task once begun. Who acts: Minstrel, maiden. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 110

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The Minstrel heeded not her warning; for never yet had he abandoned a task once begun.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel, maiden · **What happens:** not heed, not have, abandon, begin, warn · **To what, where:** warning, task

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, maiden), 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:pg66819:14:110
# text = The Minstrel heeded not her warning; for never yet had he abandoned a task once begun.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heeded	heed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
17	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **heed** | past | the Minstrel | maiden's warning |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **have** | past | Minstrel *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **abandon** | past | Minstrel | a task |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme task=Source |
| 4 | **begin** | participle | Minstrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **warn** |  | maiden |  |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication 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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