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title: And so saying, he gave her a dress of feathers—a dress of wondrous b… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And so saying, he gave her a dress of feathers—a dress of wondrous beauty, well-fitting and soft and suited to one who lives in northern climates by icy seas. Who acts: forgetful. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tr
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 111

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And so saying, he gave her a dress of feathers—a dress of wondrous beauty, well-fitting and soft and suited to one who lives in northern climates by icy seas.

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**Who acts:** forgetful · **What happens:** say, give, suit, live · **To what, where:** dress, Sampo, one, northern climates · **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 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 (forgetful), 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:pg66819:35:111
# text = And so saying, he gave her a dress of feathers—a dress of wondrous beauty, well-fitting and soft and suited to one who lives in northern climates by icy seas.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	fitting	fitting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	suited	suit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	climates	climate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | past | forgetful | a dress of feathers and a dress of wondrous beauty | Sampo |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient dress=Theme |
| 3 | **suit** | past | forgetful *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | present |  |  |  | northern climates |  | by icy seas; who *nsubj* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in climate=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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