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title: “Spare not the mistress when she comes out to milk you,” he whispere… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Spare not the mistress when she comes out to milk you,” he whispered to one. Who acts: herd, mistress. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 147

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“Spare not the mistress when she comes out to milk you,” he whispered to one.

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**Who acts:** herd, mistress · **What happens:** not spare, come out, whisper · **To what, where:** mistress, milk, one · **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 Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herd, 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:pg66819:29:147
# text = “Spare not the mistress when she comes out to milk you,” he whispered to one.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **spare** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the mistress |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent mistress=Asset |
| 2 | **come out** *in a quote* | present | herd | milk  you |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | mistress |  | one |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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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