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title: “And four or five pretty girdles inlaid with silver?” — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “And four or five pretty girdles inlaid with silver?” Who acts: four pretty girdles. 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 43

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“And four or five pretty girdles inlaid with silver?”

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**Who acts:** four pretty girdles · **What happens:** inlay

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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: who acts (four pretty girdles), 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:pg66819:20:43
# text = “And four or five pretty girdles inlaid with silver?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girdles	girdle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	inlaid	inlay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inlay** *in a quote* | participle | four pretty girdles |  |  |  |  | with silver | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=Theme |

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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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