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title: “Indeed, your face should make the surliest of men happy,” answered… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Indeed, your face should make the surliest of men happy,” answered the gallant Minstrel; “but, tell me, what errand has brought you hither? Who acts: face, gallant Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning, with its dependency tree
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 30

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“Indeed, your face should make the surliest of men happy,” answered the gallant Minstrel; “but, tell me, what errand has brought you hither?

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**Who acts:** face, gallant Minstrel · **What happens:** make, answer, tell, bring · **To what, where:** gallant Minstrel, you · **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 Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, gallant 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:pg66819:19:30
# text = “Indeed, your face should make the surliest of men happy,” answered the gallant Minstrel; “but, tell me, what errand has brought you hither?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	surliest	surly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | should | your face |  |  |  |  | indeed, surly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | the gallant Minstrel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | the gallant Minstrel *not said here* |  | the gallant Minstrel *= minstrel* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  |  | you |  |  | what *nsubj:pass*; errand *nsubj:pass*; hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=Destination |

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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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