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title: “Surely now we have meat in plenty,” then said the Mistress; “but wh… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Surely now we have meat in plenty,” then said the Mistress; “but what shall we do for pleasant drinks to give joy to our guests? Who acts: we, Mistress. 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 ever
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 20

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“Surely now we have meat in plenty,” then said the Mistress; “but what shall we do for pleasant drinks to give joy to our guests?

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**Who acts:** we, Mistress · **What happens:** have, say, do, give · **To what, where:** meat, plenty, joy, guests · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we, Mistress), 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:pg66819:27:20
# text = “Surely now we have meat in plenty,” then said the Mistress; “but what shall we do for pleasant drinks to give joy to our guests?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | we | meat |  | plenty | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Mistress |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  |  | for pleasant drinks; what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | joy | our guests |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joy=Theme to guest=Recipient |

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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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