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title: “Welcome, welcome, hero of the later day!” muttered Sakko, small of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Welcome, welcome, hero of the later day!” muttered Sakko, small of stature, weak of body, wisest of earth women. Who acts: hero. 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 46

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“Welcome, welcome, hero of the later day!” muttered Sakko, small of stature, weak of body, wisest of earth women.

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**Who acts:** hero · **What happens:** mutter · **To what, where:** Sakko

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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 (hero), 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:pg66819:26:46
# text = “Welcome, welcome, hero of the later day!” muttered Sakko, small of stature, weak of body, wisest of earth women.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Welcome	welcome	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	welcome	welcome	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	muttered	mutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Sakko	Sakko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	advcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | hero of the later day | Sakko |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sakko=Topic |

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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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