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title: The Minstrel, alone of all on board, stood up fearless and calm and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Minstrel, alone of all on board, stood up fearless and calm and steadfast as though no danger threatened. Who acts: Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 137

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The Minstrel, alone of all on board, stood up fearless and calm and steadfast as though no danger threatened.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel · **What happens:** stand up, threaten · **To what, where:** danger

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel), 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:pg66819:36:137
# text = The Minstrel, alone of all on board, stood up fearless and calm and steadfast as though no danger threatened.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	fearless	fearless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	steadfast	steadfast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	though	though	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | the Minstrel |  |  |  |  | though no danger; fearless *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **threaten** | participle |  | no danger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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