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title: “Praise be to Jumala!” echoed both the daughters. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Praise be to Jumala!” echoed both the daughters. 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 79

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“Praise be to Jumala!” echoed both the daughters.

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**Who acts:** Praise, Jumala · **What happens:** be, echo · **To what, where:** daughters

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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:pg66819:29:79
# text = “Praise be to Jumala!” echoed both the daughters.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	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	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	echoed	echo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc:preconj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | tree rules |
| 2 | **echo** | past | Jumala | the daughters |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location daughter=Theme |

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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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