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title: Never was any bridegroom more fitly arrayed. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Never was any bridegroom more fitly arrayed. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 125

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Never was any bridegroom more fitly arrayed.

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**What happens:** not be, array · **To what, where:** bridegroom

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. 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:pg66819:20:125
# text = Never was any bridegroom more fitly arrayed.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	fitly	fitly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	arrayed	array	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past |  | any bridegroom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **array** | participle |  | any bridegroom *not said here* |  |  |  | fitly *property* | 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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