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title: FACING PAGE — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: FACING PAGE A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 19

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FACING PAGE

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**What happens:** face · **To what, where:** PAGE

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:1:19
# text = FACING PAGE
1	FACING	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	PAGE	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | gerund |  | PAGE |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme page=Destination |

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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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