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title: Never in her life had she beheld a hero so finely clad, so perfect i… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Never in her life had she beheld a hero so finely clad, so perfect in form, so noble in feature. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 9

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Never in her life had she beheld a hero so finely clad, so perfect in form, so noble in feature.

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**What happens:** behold, clad · **To what, where:** life

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:24:9
# text = Never in her life had she beheld a hero so finely clad, so perfect in form, so noble in feature.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	beheld	behold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	clad	clad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | past · perfect · passive |  | Maid's life |  |  |  | Maid *nsubj*; a hero *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **clad** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | finely *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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