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title: No finer beef was ever fattened; no nobler beast was ever butchered.” — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: No finer beef was ever fattened; no nobler beast was ever butchered.” 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 12

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No finer beef was ever fattened; no nobler beast was ever butchered.”

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**What happens:** fatten, butcher · **To what, where:** finer beef, nobler beast

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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: 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:pg66819:27:12
# text = No finer beef was ever fattened; no nobler beast was ever butchered.”
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	fattened	fatten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	nobler	noble	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	butchered	butcher	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fatten** | past · passive |  | no finer beef |  |  | ever |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **butcher** | past · passive |  | no nobler beast |  |  | ever |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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