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title: Dame Louhi could distinguish some of the faces. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Dame Louhi could distinguish some of the faces. Who acts: 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 31

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Dame Louhi could distinguish some of the faces.

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**Who acts:** Dame · **What happens:** distinguish · **To what, where:** some

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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 (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:pg66819:35:31
# text = Dame Louhi could distinguish some of the faces.
1	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **distinguish** | could | Dame | some of the faces |  |  |  |  | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute some=Theme |

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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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