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title: No guest came oftener than she to Dame Louhi’s dwelling, no other wa… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: No guest came oftener than she to Dame Louhi’s dwelling, no other was more welcome to the Wise Woman’s table and fireside. Who acts: guest, other. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 112

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No guest came oftener than she to Dame Louhi’s dwelling, no other was more welcome to the Wise Woman’s table and fireside.

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**Who acts:** guest, other · **What happens:** come, be

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guest, other), 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:pg66819:22:112
# text = No guest came oftener than she to Dame Louhi’s dwelling, no other was more welcome to the Wise Woman’s table and fireside.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	oftener	often	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
11	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fireside	fireside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | no guest |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | no other |  |  |  |  | to the Wise Woman's table and fireside; welcome *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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