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title: In the kitchen they found the old cook, the wench who had caused thi… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: In the kitchen they found the old cook, the wench who had caused this unheard-of disaster. Who acts: jaws, wench. 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 76

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In the kitchen they found the old cook, the wench who had caused this unheard-of disaster.

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**Who acts:** jaws, wench · **What happens:** find, cause · **To what, where:** old cook, kitchen

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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 (jaws, wench), 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:pg66819:30:76
# text = In the kitchen they found the old cook, the wench who had caused this unheard-of disaster.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wench	wench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
16	unheard	unheard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	disaster	disaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | jaws *= jaw* | the old cook |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Topic |
| 2 | **cause** | past · perfect | the wench |  |  |  |  | unheard disaster  this *parataxis* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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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