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title: All night long the Minstrel lay open-eyed upon his bed, sleepless an… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: All night long the Minstrel lay open-eyed upon his bed, sleepless and alert. Who acts: Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 1

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All night long the Minstrel lay open-eyed upon his bed, sleepless and alert.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel · **What happens:** lie

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel), 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:pg66819:18:1
# text = All night long the Minstrel lay open-eyed upon his bed, sleepless and alert.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sleepless	sleepless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	alert	alert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the Minstrel |  |  |  | night | eyed, long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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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