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title: Then he answered her with flattering words, deeming that thus she wo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he answered her with flattering words, deeming that thus she would be pleased and therefore easily deceived. Who acts: heart, thrall. 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 71

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Then he answered her with flattering words, deeming that thus she would be pleased and therefore easily deceived.

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**Who acts:** heart, thrall · **What happens:** answer, flatter, deem, be, deceive · **To what, where:** thrall

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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 (heart, thrall), 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:pg66819:14:71
# text = Then he answered her with flattering words, deeming that thus she would be pleased and therefore easily deceived.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	flattering	flatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	deeming	deem	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | heart |  | thrall |  | then | with flattering words | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 2 | **flatter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **deem** | gerund | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | would | thrall |  |  |  |  | pleased, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **deceive** | participle | thrall *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easily, therefore *property* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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