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title: Thus did the people feast, and thus did the mighty Minstrel sing on… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus did the people feast, and thus did the mighty Minstrel sing on Ilmarinen’s happy wedding day. Who acts: people. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 108

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Thus did the people feast, and thus did the mighty Minstrel sing on Ilmarinen’s happy wedding day.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** feast, do · **To what, where:** mighty Minstrel sing

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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 (people), 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:pg66819:27:108
# text = Thus did the people feast, and thus did the mighty Minstrel sing on Ilmarinen’s happy wedding day.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	feast	feast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feast** | past · do-support | the people |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | the people *not said here* | the mighty Minstrel sing |  |  | on Ilmarinen's happy wedding day | thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Eventuality |

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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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