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title: Then, as one accustomed to entertaining a multitude, the wise old Mi… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, as one accustomed to entertaining a multitude, the wise old Mistress feasted her guests in the noblest fashion. Who acts: one, wise old 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 every 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 91

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Then, as one accustomed to entertaining a multitude, the wise old Mistress feasted her guests in the noblest fashion.

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**Who acts:** one, wise old Mistress · **What happens:** accustom, entertain, feast · **To what, where:** multitude, guests, noblest fashion

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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 (one, wise old 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:pg66819:27:91
# text = Then, as one accustomed to entertaining a multitude, the wise old Mistress feasted her guests in the noblest fashion.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
5	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	entertaining	entertain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	feasted	feast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	noblest	noble	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | participle | one |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **entertain** | gerund | one *not said here* | a multitude |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus multitude=Experiencer |
| 3 | **feast** | past | the wise old Mistress | multitude's guests |  | the noblest fashion |  |  | 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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