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title: Now among the servants of the hero there was a young slave whose nam… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Now among the servants of the hero there was a young slave whose name was Kullervo. Who acts: young slave, name, Kullervo. 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 8

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Now among the servants of the hero there was a young slave whose name was Kullervo.

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**Who acts:** young slave, name, Kullervo · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** servants, Kullervo

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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 (young slave, name, Kullervo), 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:pg66819:29:8
# text = Now among the servants of the hero there was a young slave whose name was Kullervo.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	among	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Kullervo	Kullervo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a young slave |  |  | the servants of the hero; there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among servant=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Kullervo's name | Kullervo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | Kullervo |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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