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title: Thus did Dame Louhi, the wise one, provide everything needed for eat… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus did Dame Louhi, the wise one, provide everything needed for eating or drinking. Who acts: Dame, everything. 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 27

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Thus did Dame Louhi, the wise one, provide everything needed for eating or drinking.

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**Who acts:** Dame, everything · **What happens:** provide, need, eat, drink

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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 (Dame, everything), 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:pg66819:27:27
# text = Thus did Dame Louhi, the wise one, provide everything needed for eating or drinking.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
3	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past · do-support | Dame |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | past | everything |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** | gerund | everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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