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title: “Well then, my daughter,” said good Dame Lokka, “it is for you to ma… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well then, my daughter,” said good Dame Lokka, “it is for you to make the bath house ready. Who acts: daughter, bath. 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 77

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“Well then, my daughter,” said good Dame Lokka, “it is for you to make the bath house ready.

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**Who acts:** daughter, bath · **What happens:** say, be, make · **To what, where:** bath house · **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 (daughter, bath), 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:pg66819:20:77
# text = “Well then, my daughter,” said good Dame Lokka, “it is for you to make the bath house ready.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	Lokka	Lokka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | my daughter |  |  |  | then | good Dame *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | bath |  |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my daughter *not said here* | the bath house |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |

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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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