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title: “Welcome to the great large man who deigns to enter this lowly cotta… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Welcome to the great large man who deigns to enter this lowly cottage, this poor little house of wood, this humble hut so unworthy of the presence of one so noble!” Who acts: great large man, this. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph,
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 60

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“Welcome to the great large man who deigns to enter this lowly cottage, this poor little house of wood, this humble hut so unworthy of the presence of one so noble!”

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**Who acts:** great large man, this · **What happens:** deign, enter, house · **To what, where:** lowly cottage

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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 (great large man, this), 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:pg66819:26:60
# text = “Welcome to the great large man who deigns to enter this lowly cottage, this poor little house of wood, this humble hut so unworthy of the presence of one so noble!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Welcome	welcome	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	deigns	deign	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	lowly	lowly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nsubj	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deign** *in a quote* | present | the great large man and poor little house |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the great large man and poor little house *not said here* | this lowly cottage |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Destination |
| 3 | **house** *in a quote* |  | this |  |  |  |  | of wood | 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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