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title: Then, in a few words plainly spoken, she told her brother all that s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, in a few words plainly spoken, she told her brother all that she had seen and heard that morning. Who acts: Anniki. 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 57

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Then, in a few words plainly spoken, she told her brother all that she had seen and heard that morning.

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**Who acts:** Anniki · **What happens:** speak, tell, see, hear · **To what, where:** few words, brother · **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 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 (Anniki), 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:pg66819:20:57
# text = Then, in a few words plainly spoken, she told her brother all that she had seen and heard that morning.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
7	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	iobj	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  | a few words *not said here* |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Anniki |  | Anniki's brother | a few words | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | Anniki |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **hear** | past | Anniki *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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