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title: Here is Brown Bossy, patiently waiting to give a cup of milk to Anni… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Here is Brown Bossy, patiently waiting to give a cup of milk to Anniki. 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 50

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Here is Brown Bossy, patiently waiting to give a cup of milk to Anniki.

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**What happens:** be, wait, give · **To what, where:** cup, Anniki

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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: 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:pg66819:30:50
# text = Here is Brown Bossy, patiently waiting to give a cup of milk to Anniki.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Bossy	bossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Anniki	Anniki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | here |  | bossy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | patiently *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | a cup of milk | Anniki |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cup=Theme to anniki=Recipient |

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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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