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title: She was sure that the children and some of the old men and old women… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She was sure that the children and some of the old men and old women were her own subjects—she had seen them every day of their lives, but never in so jolly a mood as now. Who acts: Dame, children. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 32

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She was sure that the children and some of the old men and old women were her own subjects—she had seen them every day of their lives, but never in so jolly a mood as now.

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**Who acts:** Dame, children · **What happens:** be, see, not jolly · **To what, where:** own subjects, mood

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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, children), 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:pg66819:35:32
# text = She was sure that the children and some of the old men and old women were her own subjects—she had seen them every day of their lives, but never in so jolly a mood as now.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	jolly	jolly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Dame |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the children | Dame's own subjects |  |  |  | Dame *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | Dame's own subjects |  |  | day | Dame *nsubj*; children *= child* *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **jolly** | infinitive | Dame *not said here* | a mood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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