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title: Old Dame Louhi, unlovely and unloved, sat in the doorway of her dwel… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Old Dame Louhi, unlovely and unloved, sat in the doorway of her dwelling. Who acts: Old Dame. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 1

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Old Dame Louhi, unlovely and unloved, sat in the doorway of her dwelling.

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**Who acts:** Old Dame · **What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** doorway

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Dame), 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:pg66819:35:1
# text = Old Dame Louhi, unlovely and unloved, sat in the doorway of her dwelling.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	unlovely	unlovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	unloved	unloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Old Dame |  |  | the doorway of Dame's dwelling |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=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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