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title: Lo! every tear-drop was a pearl of wondrous beauty—a pearl of pricel… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Lo! every tear-drop was a pearl of wondrous beauty—a pearl of priceless value, fit to adorn a queen or deck the crown of the mightiest king. Who acts: tear drop, priceless value. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tre
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 108

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Lo! every tear-drop was a pearl of wondrous beauty—a pearl of priceless value, fit to adorn a queen or deck the crown of the mightiest king.

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**Who acts:** tear drop, priceless value · **What happens:** be, adorn, deck, pearl, crown · **To what, where:** pearl, queen, crown, mightiest king

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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 (tear drop, priceless value), 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:pg66819:35:108
# text = Lo! every tear-drop was a pearl of wondrous beauty—a pearl of priceless value, fit to adorn a queen or deck the crown of the mightiest king.
1	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
4	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	priceless	priceless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	adorn	adorn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	deck	deck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	mightiest	mighty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | every tear drop | a pearl and a pearl of priceless value |  |  |  | of wondrous beauty | tree rules |
| 2 | **adorn** | to-infinitive | every tear drop *not said here* |  | a queen |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme queen=Destination |
| 3 | **deck** | infinitive | every tear drop *not said here* | the crown of the mightiest king |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme crown=Destination |
| 4 | **pearl** |  | priceless value |  |  |  |  |  | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **crown** |  |  | the mightiest king |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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