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title: And she who had been the Maid of Beauty—she who was now the wife and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And she who had been the Maid of Beauty—she who was now the wife and helpmate of the master Smith—was busy at the churn. Who acts: Dame, Maid. 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 4

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And she who had been the Maid of Beauty—she who was now the wife and helpmate of the master Smith—was busy at the churn.

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**Who acts:** Dame, Maid · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Maid, churn

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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, Maid), 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:pg66819:30:4
# text = And she who had been the Maid of Beauty—she who was now the wife and helpmate of the master Smith—was busy at the churn.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	helpmate	helpmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	churn	churn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past · perfect | Dame | the Maid |  |  |  | of Beauty; who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Maid |  |  | the churn | now | maid *nsubj*; who *nsubj*; the wife and helpmate of the master Smith *nsubj*; busy *property* | 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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