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title: The Mistress also rose, slowly, painfully, her stiffened joints crea… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mistress also rose, slowly, painfully, her stiffened joints creaking. Who acts: Mistress, joints. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 34

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The Mistress also rose, slowly, painfully, her stiffened joints creaking.

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**Who acts:** Mistress, joints · **What happens:** rise, stiffen, creak · **To what, where:** joints

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress, joints), 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:pg66819:26:34
# text = The Mistress also rose, slowly, painfully, her stiffened joints creaking.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	painfully	painfully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stiffened	stiffen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	creaking	creak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the Mistress |  |  |  |  | painfully, slowly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stiffen** | past | Mistress | joints |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent joint=Patient |
| 3 | **creak** | gerund | joints *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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