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title: Then she called to her waiting-maiden, and bade her hasten to bring… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she called to her waiting-maiden, and bade her hasten to bring a light, that all might see the hero and be glad. Who acts: hail, all. 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 61

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Then she called to her waiting-maiden, and bade her hasten to bring a light, that all might see the hero and be glad.

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**Who acts:** hail, all · **What happens:** call, bade, hasten, bring, see, be · **To what, where:** waiting maiden, hail, light, hero · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hail, all), 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:pg66819:26:61
# text = Then she called to her waiting-maiden, and bade her hasten to bring a light, that all might see the hero and be glad.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | hail |  | hail's waiting maiden |  | then |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient |
| 2 | **bade** | past | hail *not said here* | hail |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hasten** | infinitive | hail *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | hail *not said here* | a light |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | might | all | the hero |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hero=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | infinitive | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glad *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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