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title: In one hand she carried a bowl of honey and in the other a yellow pi… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: In one hand she carried a bowl of honey and in the other a yellow pitcher brimming full of reindeer’s milk; but she offered neither of these to the Minstrel. Who acts: Maid, yellow pitcher. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing, with its dep
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 65

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In one hand she carried a bowl of honey and in the other a yellow pitcher brimming full of reindeer’s milk; but she offered neither of these to the Minstrel.

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**Who acts:** Maid, yellow pitcher · **What happens:** carry, brim, offer · **To what, where:** bowl, one hand, neither, Minstrel

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maid, yellow pitcher), 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:pg66819:23:65
# text = In one hand she carried a bowl of honey and in the other a yellow pitcher brimming full of reindeer’s milk; but she offered neither of these to the Minstrel.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	brimming	brim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Maid | a bowl of honey in the other  a yellow pitcher |  | one hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bowl=Value in hand=Location |
| 2 | **brim** | gerund | a yellow pitcher *not said here* |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **offer** | past | Maid | neither of these | the Minstrel |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent neither=Theme to minstrel=Goal |

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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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