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title: But most of all, they wondered at the manner in which the bones were… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But most of all, they wondered at the manner in which the bones were laid, this way and that, and knit firmly into a framework both neat and strong. Who acts: most. 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 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 77

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But most of all, they wondered at the manner in which the bones were laid, this way and that, and knit firmly into a framework both neat and strong.

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**Who acts:** most · **What happens:** wonder, lay, knit · **To what, where:** way, manner, bones, framework

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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 (most), 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:pg66819:26:77
# text = But most of all, they wondered at the manner in which the bones were laid, this way and that, and knit firmly into a framework both neat and strong.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	knit	knit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
25	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	framework	framework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc:preconj	_	_
30	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | most of all | this way  that |  | the manner |  | size *nsubj* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lay** | past · passive |  | the bones |  | the manner |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination |
| 3 | **knit** | infinitive | most of all *not said here* |  |  | a framework |  | firmly *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into framework=Product |

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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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