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title: There the master Smith and his mother, Dame Lokka, did all that they… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: There the master Smith and his mother, Dame Lokka, did all that they could for his comfort. Who acts: master Smith, stranger. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 24

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There the master Smith and his mother, Dame Lokka, did all that they could for his comfort.

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**Who acts:** master Smith, stranger · **What happens:** do, comfort

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master Smith, stranger), 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:pg66819:16:24
# text = There the master Smith and his mother, Dame Lokka, did all that they could for his comfort.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	Lokka	Lokka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the master Smith  There and stranger's mother and Dame |  |  |  |  | for stranger's comfort | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **comfort** |  | stranger |  |  |  |  |  | nom comfort «state 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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