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title: “As a minstrel and a singer He would with this household linger, Giv… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “As a minstrel and a singer He would with this household linger, Give the bride a ring of gold, A dress of silk, and wealth untold; And to the bridegroom, he would give More skill than to all smiths that live. Who acts: you, Creator, smiths. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 106

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“As a minstrel and a singer He would with this household linger, Give the bride a ring of gold, A dress of silk, and wealth untold; And to the bridegroom, he would give More skill than to all smiths that live.

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**Who acts:** you, Creator, smiths · **What happens:** give, live · **To what, where:** ring, bride, More skill, bridegroom

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Creator, smiths), 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:pg66819:27:106
# text = “As a minstrel and a singer He would with this household linger, Give the bride a ring of gold, A dress of silk, and wealth untold; And to the bridegroom, he would give More skill than to all smiths that live.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	linger	linger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	untold	untold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
40	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	41	amod	_	_
41	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	than	than	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
45	smiths	smith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a ring of gold and a dress of silk | the bride |  |  | as a minstrel with this household linger and a singer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bride=Recipient ring=Theme |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | would | Creator | More skill | the bridegroom |  |  | than all smiths | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent skill=Theme to bridegroom=Recipient |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | present | all smiths |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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