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title: On her right sat Anniki, the maid of the morning, and on her left wa… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On her right sat Anniki, the maid of the morning, and on her left was Ilmarinen’s wife and mistress whom he had won in the far-off North Land. Who acts: Anniki. 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 e
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 74

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On her right sat Anniki, the maid of the morning, and on her left was Ilmarinen’s wife and mistress whom he had won in the far-off North Land.

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**Who acts:** Anniki · **What happens:** sit, be, win · **To what, where:** Anniki, right, wife, left, far North Land

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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 (Anniki), 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:pg66819:29:74
# text = On her right sat Anniki, the maid of the morning, and on her left was Ilmarinen’s wife and mistress whom he had won in the far-off North Land.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Anniki	Anniki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
29	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	off	off	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | Anniki |  | Dame's right |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent anniki=Theme on right=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Ilmarinen's wife and mistress |  | Dame's left |  | Ilmarinen *nmod:poss*; mistress *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | past · perfect | Anniki | Ilmarinen's wife and mistress |  | the far North Land |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Eventuality |

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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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