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title: “Truly, my daughter,” said Dame Louhi, “it becomes us to give these… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Truly, my daughter,” said Dame Louhi, “it becomes us to give these heroes joy after their perilous journey.” Who acts: daughter, stranger, ashes. 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 151

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“Truly, my daughter,” said Dame Louhi, “it becomes us to give these heroes joy after their perilous journey.”

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**Who acts:** daughter, stranger, ashes · **What happens:** say, become, give, journey · **To what, where:** us, heroes · **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, stranger, ashes), 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:pg66819:22:151
# text = “Truly, my daughter,” said Dame Louhi, “it becomes us to give these heroes joy after their perilous journey.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	perilous	perilous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	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 |  |  |  |  | Dame *nsubj*; truly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** *in a quote* | present | stranger |  | us |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | stranger *not said here* | this heroes |  |  | after ashes's perilous journey | joy *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hero=Recipient joy=Theme |
| 4 | **journey** *in a quote* |  | ashes *= ash* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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