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title: Then, without deigning to speak another word, she resumed her spinni… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 24

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Then, without deigning to speak another word, she resumed her spinning.

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**Who acts:** doom · **What happens:** deign, speak, resume, spin · **To what, where:** word, spinning · **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 (doom), 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:pg66819:15:24
# text = Then, without deigning to speak another word, she resumed her spinning.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	deigning	deign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	resumed	resume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deign** | gerund | doom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | doom *not said here* | another word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **resume** | past | doom | doom's spinning |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spinning=Eventuality |
| 4 | **spin** |  | doom |  |  |  |  |  | nom spinning «act 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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