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title: For one whole day the Minstrel held the reins and shouted urgently t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For one whole day the Minstrel held the reins and shouted urgently to his faithful steed. Who acts: Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 20

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For one whole day the Minstrel held the reins and shouted urgently to his faithful steed.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel · **What happens:** hold, shout · **To what, where:** reins, faithful steed

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. 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:pg66819:6:20
# text = For one whole day the Minstrel held the reins and shouted urgently to his faithful steed.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	urgently	urgently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | the Minstrel | the reins |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the Minstrel *not said here* |  | Minstrel's faithful steed |  |  | urgently *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to steed=Recipient |

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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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