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title: How shall we brew enough ale for the multitude that will come to the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: How shall we brew enough ale for the multitude that will come to the wedding feast?” Who acts: we, multitude. 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 21

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How shall we brew enough ale for the multitude that will come to the wedding feast?”

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**Who acts:** we, multitude · **What happens:** brew, come · **To what, where:** enough ale, wedding feast

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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, multitude), 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:pg66819:27:21
# text = How shall we brew enough ale for the multitude that will come to the wedding feast?”
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	brew	brew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brew** | shall | we | enough ale |  |  |  | for the multitude | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ale=Product for multitude=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **come** | future | the multitude |  |  | the wedding feast |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to feast=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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