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title: “How strange that a land of mists and fogs, a land so dreary and for… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “How strange that a land of mists and fogs, a land so dreary and forbidding, should be so blessed with plenty!” said the Minstrel. Who acts: land, Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 48

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“How strange that a land of mists and fogs, a land so dreary and forbidding, should be so blessed with plenty!” said the Minstrel.

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**Who acts:** land, Minstrel · **What happens:** forbid, be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, 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:pg66819:32:48
# text = “How strange that a land of mists and fogs, a land so dreary and forbidding, should be so blessed with plenty!” said the Minstrel.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	ccomp	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mists	mist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fogs	fog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	forbidding	forbid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	blessed	blessed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** *in a quote* | gerund | a land of mists and fogs and a land *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | should | a land of mists and fogs and a land |  |  |  |  | with plenty; blessed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Minstrel |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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