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title: Dame Lokka, best and busiest of matrons, was planning the evening me… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Dame Lokka, best and busiest of matrons, was planning the evening meal. Who acts: Dame. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 2

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Dame Lokka, best and busiest of matrons, was planning the evening meal.

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**Who acts:** Dame · **What happens:** plan · **To what, where:** evening meal

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame), 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:pg66819:30:2
# text = Dame Lokka, best and busiest of matrons, was planning the evening meal.
1	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Lokka	Lokka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	busiest	busy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	matrons	matron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	planning	plan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | past · progressive | Dame  best | the evening meal |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Topic |

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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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