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title: In her own chamber Dame Lokka, the best loved of matrons, fell befor… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: In her own chamber Dame Lokka, the best loved of matrons, fell before the pitiless tide. 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 78

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In her own chamber Dame Lokka, the best loved of matrons, fell before the pitiless tide.

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**What happens:** love, fall · **To what, where:** own chamber, pitiless tide

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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:pg66819:30:78
# text = In her own chamber Dame Lokka, the best loved of matrons, fell before the pitiless tide.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Lokka	Lokka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	matrons	matron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	pitiless	pitiless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | participle |  |  |  | wench's own chamber |  | of matrons | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fall** | past |  |  |  | the pitiless tide |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before tide=Location |

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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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