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title: Sharply, and in shrill, cutting tones, she answered the call of the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharply, and in shrill, cutting tones, she answered the call of the Minstrel: Who acts: eye. 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 35

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Sharply, and in shrill, cutting tones, she answered the call of the Minstrel:

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**Who acts:** eye · **What happens:** cut, answer, call · **To what, where:** tones, call, shrill, Minstrel · **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 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 (eye), 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:pg66819:14:35
# text = Sharply, and in shrill, cutting tones, she answered the call of the Minstrel:
1	Sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | gerund | eye *not said here* | tones |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tone=Product |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | eye | the call of the Minstrel |  | shrill |  | sharply *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality |
| 3 | **call** |  |  | the Minstrel |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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