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title: It struck the Minstrel’s knee, cutting a red gash that was both wide… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It struck the Minstrel’s knee, cutting a red gash that was both wide and deep. Who acts: grasp, red gash. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 85

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It struck the Minstrel’s knee, cutting a red gash that was both wide and deep.

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**Who acts:** grasp, red gash · **What happens:** strike, cut, be · **To what, where:** knee, red gash

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grasp, red gash), 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:pg66819:3:85
# text = It struck the Minstrel’s knee, cutting a red gash that was both wide and deep.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gash	gash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	both	both	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | grasp | the Minstrel's knee |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Patient |
| 2 | **cut** | gerund | grasp *not said here* | a red gash |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gash=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | a red gash |  |  |  |  | both, wide *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | a red gash *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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