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title: First, she built in Pohyola a house so roomy and large that even min… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: First, she built in Pohyola a house so roomy and large that even minstrels blushed to tell its dimensions, and story-tellers feared to speak the truth. Who acts: Dame, minstrels. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast, with its dependency tree a
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 5

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First, she built in Pohyola a house so roomy and large that even minstrels blushed to tell its dimensions, and story-tellers feared to speak the truth.

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**Who acts:** Dame, minstrels · **What happens:** build, blush, tell, fear, speak · **To what, where:** house, Pohyola, minstrels, dimensions, truth · **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 (Dame, minstrels), 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:pg66819:27:5
# text = First, she built in Pohyola a house so roomy and large that even minstrels blushed to tell its dimensions, and story-tellers feared to speak the truth.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	roomy	roomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
16	blushed	blush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	dimensions	dimension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tellers	teller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Dame | a house |  | Pohyola |  | roomy *obl*; first *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product |
| 2 | **blush** | participle |  | minstrels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | roomy's dimensions |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dimension=Recipient |
| 4 | **fear** | past | minstrels |  |  |  |  | story tellers *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | minstrels *not said here* | the truth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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