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title: And the word that was oftenest on the lips of Smith and Minstrel was… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And the word that was oftenest on the lips of Smith and Minstrel was “Home! home! home!” Who acts: word. 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 34

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And the word that was oftenest on the lips of Smith and Minstrel was “Home! home! home!”

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** lips, Home

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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: who acts (word), 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:pg66819:31:34
# text = And the word that was oftenest on the lips of Smith and Minstrel was “Home! home! home!”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	oftenest	often	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the word |  |  | the lips of Smith and Minstrel |  | that *nsubj*; home *appos*; home, often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | Home |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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