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title: Great pain fell upon the Minstrel, and yet he was fearless and undau… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Great pain fell upon the Minstrel, and yet he was fearless and undaunted. Who acts: Great pain, pain. 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 87

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Great pain fell upon the Minstrel, and yet he was fearless and undaunted.

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**Who acts:** Great pain, pain · **What happens:** fall, be · **To what, where:** Minstrel

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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 (Great pain, pain), 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:pg66819:3:87
# text = Great pain fell upon the Minstrel, and yet he was fearless and undaunted.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	fearless	fearless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	undaunted	undaunted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Great pain |  |  | the Minstrel |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon minstrel=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | pain |  |  |  | yet | fearless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | pain *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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