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title: Surely then did the hero Minstrel feel that his doom was at hand. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Surely then did the hero Minstrel feel that his doom was at hand. Who acts: hero Minstrel, doom, Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 34

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Surely then did the hero Minstrel feel that his doom was at hand.

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**Who acts:** hero Minstrel, doom, Minstrel · **What happens:** feel, be, doom · **To what, where:** hand

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero Minstrel, doom, 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:pg66819:38:34
# text = Surely then did the hero Minstrel feel that his doom was at hand.
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · do-support | the hero Minstrel |  |  |  | then | surely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | Minstrel's doom |  |  | hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **doom** |  | Minstrel |  |  |  |  |  | nom doom «event 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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