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title: Much good advice was given to her who had lately been the Maid of Be… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Much good advice was given to her who had lately been the Maid of Beauty but was now the Bride of Beauty: how she should keep her husband’s house in order; how she should obey and serve him; how she should love and cherish her mother-in-law and all the members of her family. Who acts: bride. A sente
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 110

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Much good advice was given to her who had lately been the Maid of Beauty but was now the Bride of Beauty: how she should keep her husband’s house in order; how she should obey and serve him; how she should love and cherish her mother-in-law and all the members of her family.

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**Who acts:** bride · **What happens:** give, have, be, keep, obey, serve · **To what, where:** good advice, Maid, Bride, house, order, husband

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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 (bride), 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:pg66819:27:110
# text = Much good advice was given to her who had lately been the Maid of Beauty but was now the Bride of Beauty: how she should keep her husband’s house in order; how she should obey and serve him; how she should love and cherish her mother-in-law and all the members of her family.
1	Much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	cherish	cherish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	58	det:predet	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | good advice |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | bride *nmod:poss*; who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | participle |  | the Maid |  |  |  | of Beauty; lately *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the Bride |  |  | now | of Beauty | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | should | bride | bride's husband's house |  | order |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in order=Location |
| 6 | **obey** | should | bride |  |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **serve** | infinitive | bride *not said here* | husband |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
| 8 | **love** | should | bride |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **cherish** | infinitive | bride *not said here* | bride's mother and all members of bride's family |  | law |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |

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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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