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title: Six strong sledges could scarcely hold the fat that was rendered fro… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Six strong sledges could scarcely hold the fat that was rendered from him. Who acts: Six strong sledges. 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 19

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Six strong sledges could scarcely hold the fat that was rendered from him.

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**Who acts:** Six strong sledges · **What happens:** hold, render · **To what, where:** fat

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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 (Six strong sledges), 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:pg66819:27:19
# text = Six strong sledges could scarcely hold the fat that was rendered from him.
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sledges	sledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | could | Six strong sledges | the fat |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme |
| 2 | **render** | past · passive |  | the fat |  |  |  | from bull | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |

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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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