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title: “Praise be to Jumala for all these blessings!” said Dame Lokka, ferv… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Praise be to Jumala for all these blessings!” said Dame Lokka, fervently. Who acts: Praise, Jumala. 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 78

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“Praise be to Jumala for all these blessings!” said Dame Lokka, fervently.

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**Who acts:** Praise, Jumala · **What happens:** be, say · **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 (Praise, Jumala), 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:pg66819:29:78
# text = “Praise be to Jumala for all these blessings!” said Dame Lokka, fervently.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Jumala	Jumala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	blessings	blessing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
14	Lokka	Lokka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fervently	fervently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | Praise |  |  |  |  | to Jumala; for all blessings | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Jumala |  |  |  |  | Dame *nsubj*; fervently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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