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title: These words made Iron feel much braver; and they were spoken in tone… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: These words made Iron feel much braver; and they were spoken in tones so sweet and persuasive that he was almost minded to obey without another word. Who acts: words, Iron, Smith. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet, with its dependency tree 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 57

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These words made Iron feel much braver; and they were spoken in tones so sweet and persuasive that he was almost minded to obey without another word.

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**Who acts:** words, Iron, Smith · **What happens:** make, feel, speak, be, obey · **To what, where:** Iron, words · **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 Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, Iron, Smith), 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:pg66819:5:57
# text = These words made Iron feel much braver; and they were spoken in tones so sweet and persuasive that he was almost minded to obey without another word.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	braver	brave	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	persuasive	persuasive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | this words | Iron |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | Iron *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | words *= word* |  |  |  | tones *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Smith |  |  |  |  | almost, minded *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **obey** | to-infinitive | Smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without another word | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: 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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