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title: The Minstrel, wise and steadfast, looked at the image closely, admir… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Minstrel, wise and steadfast, looked at the image closely, admiringly. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 134

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The Minstrel, wise and steadfast, looked at the image closely, admiringly.

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**What happens:** look · **To what, where:** Minstrel, image

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. 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:pg66819:31:134
# text = The Minstrel, wise and steadfast, looked at the image closely, admiringly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	appos	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	steadfast	steadfast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	admiringly	admiringly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | participle · passive |  | the Minstrel |  | the image |  | admiringly, closely *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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