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title: The Mistress, grim and fearless, spoke up bravely in the darkness, h… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mistress, grim and fearless, spoke up bravely in the darkness, heeding not the dreadful turmoil. Who acts: Mistress. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 32

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The Mistress, grim and fearless, spoke up bravely in the darkness, heeding not the dreadful turmoil.

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**Who acts:** Mistress · **What happens:** speak up, heed · **To what, where:** darkness, dreadful turmoil

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg66819:8:32
# text = The Mistress, grim and fearless, spoke up bravely in the darkness, heeding not the dreadful turmoil.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fearless	fearless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	heeding	heed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	turmoil	turmoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak up** *speech: other* | past | the Mistress |  |  | the darkness |  | bravely *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **heed** | gerund | the Mistress *not said here* | the dreadful turmoil |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turmoil=Theme |

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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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