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title: “Stay here and be our honored guest,” continued the Mistress. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Stay here and be our honored guest,” continued the Mistress. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 83

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“Stay here and be our honored guest,” continued the Mistress.

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**What happens:** stay, honor, be, continue · **To what, where:** honored guest, Mistress · **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, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:2:83
# text = “Stay here and be our honored guest,” continued the Mistress.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Mistress	mistress	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 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **honor** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | our honored guest |  |  |  | our *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **continue** | past |  | the Mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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