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title: No minstrel’s song can depict that scene so fraught with woe, so hor… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: No minstrel’s song can depict that scene so fraught with woe, so horrible to contemplate. Who acts: song, minstrel. 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 72

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No minstrel’s song can depict that scene so fraught with woe, so horrible to contemplate.

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**Who acts:** song, minstrel · **What happens:** depict, contemplate, sing · **To what, where:** scene

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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 (song, minstrel), 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:pg66819:30:72
# text = No minstrel’s song can depict that scene so fraught with woe, so horrible to contemplate.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	depict	depict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fraught	fraught	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	contemplate	contemplate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depict** | can | no minstrel's song | that scene |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent scene=Theme |
| 2 | **contemplate** | to-infinitive | no minstrel's song *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sing** |  | no minstrel |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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