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title: And all that were in the house admired its size and its wonderful sh… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And all that were in the house admired its size and its wonderful shape and the mighty teeth that were set in the mighty jaws. Who acts: that, house. 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 e
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 76

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And all that were in the house admired its size and its wonderful shape and the mighty teeth that were set in the mighty jaws.

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**Who acts:** that, house · **What happens:** be, admire, set · **To what, where:** house, size, mighty teeth, mighty jaws

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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 (that, house), 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:pg66819:26:76
# text = And all that were in the house admired its size and its wonderful shape and the mighty teeth that were set in the mighty jaws.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	admired	admire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that |  |  | all house |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **admire** | past | all house | house's size and house's wonderful shape and the mighty teeth |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer size=Stimulus |
| 3 | **set** | past · passive |  | the mighty teeth |  | the mighty jaws |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in jaw=Destination |

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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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