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title: They could see the Mistress herself, even Dame Louhi, sitting in the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: They could see the Mistress herself, even Dame Louhi, sitting in the high seat at the stern and shouting her commands to the crew. Who acts: heroes, Mistress. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 81

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They could see the Mistress herself, even Dame Louhi, sitting in the high seat at the stern and shouting her commands to the crew.

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**Who acts:** heroes, Mistress · **What happens:** see, sit, shout, command · **To what, where:** Mistress, high seat, commands, crew · **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 Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroes, 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:pg66819:37:81
# text = They could see the Mistress herself, even Dame Louhi, sitting in the high seat at the stern and shouting her commands to the crew.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | heroes *= hero* | the Mistress |  |  |  | Mistress *obl*; Dame *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mistress=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  | the high seat |  | at the stern | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  | Mistress's commands | the crew |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent command=Topic to crew=Recipient |
| 4 | **command** |  | Mistress |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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