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title: Then in anger the Minstrel bade them drop their oars and change seat… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then in anger the Minstrel bade them drop their oars and change seats with the maidens, who had been idly looking on. Who acts: maidens. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 90

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Then in anger the Minstrel bade them drop their oars and change seats with the maidens, who had been idly looking on.

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**Who acts:** maidens · **What happens:** drop, change, look on · **To what, where:** Minstrel bade, anger, seats

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens), 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:pg66819:33:90
# text = Then in anger the Minstrel bade them drop their oars and change seats with the maidens, who had been idly looking on.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux	_	_
21	idly	idly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	appos	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present |  | the Minstrel bade  oars |  | anger | then | oars's oars *obj* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oar=Theme in anger=Destination |
| 2 | **change** | present |  | seats |  |  |  | with the maidens | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent seat=Theme with maiden=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **look on** | past · perfect · progressive | the maidens |  |  |  |  | idly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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