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title: With savage looks and threatening gestures, she answered the cunning… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With savage looks and threatening gestures, she answered the cunning Minstrel: “O foolish fellow, why do you tell such falsehoods? Who acts: daughter, you. 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 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 65

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With savage looks and threatening gestures, she answered the cunning Minstrel: “O foolish fellow, why do you tell such falsehoods?

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**Who acts:** daughter, you · **What happens:** threaten, answer, tell · **To what, where:** cunning Minstrel, such falsehoods · **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 (daughter, you), 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:pg66819:14:65
# text = With savage looks and threatening gestures, she answered the cunning Minstrel: “O foolish fellow, why do you tell such falsehoods?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	savage	savage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	threatening	threaten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	gestures	gesture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	17	case	_	_
16	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
23	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	falsehoods	falsehood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | daughter | the cunning Minstrel |  |  |  | with savage looks and threatening gestures | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent minstrel=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | such falsehoods |  |  |  | of foolish fellow | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent falsehood=Recipient |

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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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