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title: She fed him warm milk of the reindeer, food most nourishing; soups a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She fed him warm milk of the reindeer, food most nourishing; soups and gruels she also gave him till his strength revived. Who acts: matron, soups, strength. 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 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 27

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She fed him warm milk of the reindeer, food most nourishing; soups and gruels she also gave him till his strength revived.

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**Who acts:** matron, soups, strength · **What happens:** feed, give, revive · **To what, where:** warm milk, stranger

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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 (matron, soups, strength), 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:pg66819:16:27
# text = She fed him warm milk of the reindeer, food most nourishing; soups and gruels she also gave him till his strength revived.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	nourishing	nourishing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	soups	soup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gruels	gruel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	revived	revive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | matron | warm milk of the reindeer and food | stranger |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient milk=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | soups and gruels |  | stranger |  |  | matron *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **revive** | past | stranger's strength |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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