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title: “But he is very wise; he possesses many powerful runes; he is master… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “But he is very wise; he possesses many powerful runes; he is master of many magic spells,” said the queen. Who acts: man, queen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 18

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“But he is very wise; he possesses many powerful runes; he is master of many magic spells,” said the queen.

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**Who acts:** man, queen · **What happens:** be, possess, say · **To what, where:** many powerful runes, master · **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 Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, queen), 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:pg66819:15:18
# text = “But he is very wise; he possesses many powerful runes; he is master of many magic spells,” said the queen.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	runes	rune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | man |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **possess** *in a quote* | present | man | many powerful runes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | man | master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the queen |  |  |  |  | of many magic spells | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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