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title: The unlovely Mistress, the swordsmen and the spearsmen, the old men… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The unlovely Mistress, the swordsmen and the spearsmen, the old men and the married women, the young men and the half-grown girls, and the little children—he left them all sweetly slumbering, forgetful, senseless, harmless. Who acts: unlovely Mistress. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 14

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The unlovely Mistress, the swordsmen and the spearsmen, the old men and the married women, the young men and the half-grown girls, and the little children—he left them all sweetly slumbering, forgetful, senseless, harmless.

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**Who acts:** unlovely Mistress · **What happens:** grow, leave, slumber · **To what, where:** children

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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 (unlovely Mistress), 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:pg66819:36:14
# text = The unlovely Mistress, the swordsmen and the spearsmen, the old men and the married women, the young men and the half-grown girls, and the little children—he left them all sweetly slumbering, forgetful, senseless, harmless.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unlovely	unlovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	swordsmen	swordsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spearsmen	spearsmen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	advmod	_	_
38	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	slumbering	slumber	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	forgetful	forgetful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	senseless	senseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | half *compound* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the unlovely Mistress and the swordsmen and the spearsmen and the old men and the married women and the young men and the grown girls and the little children | children *= child* |  |  |  | sleep *nsubj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **slumber** | gerund | the unlovely Mistress and the swordsmen and the spearsmen and the old men and the married women and the young men and the grown girls and the little children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sweetly *property* | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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