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title: “What is that, my daughter?” inquired Dame Louhi, sitting up and lis… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “What is that, my daughter?” inquired Dame Louhi, sitting up and listening. Who acts: daughter. 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 13

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“What is that, my daughter?” inquired Dame Louhi, sitting up and listening.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** be, inquire, sit up, listen · **To what, where:** daughter, Dame · **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 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 (daughter), 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:pg66819:22:13
# text = “What is that, my daughter?” inquired Dame Louhi, sitting up and listening.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | my daughter |  |  |  | What *nsubj*; that *nsubj*; my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | my daughter |  | Dame |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dame=Recipient |
| 3 | **sit up** | gerund | my daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **listen** | gerund | my daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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