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title: Then, at length, when all were peacefully feeding, he sat down upon… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, at length, when all were peacefully feeding, he sat down upon a grassy hummock and looked around him, sad, lonely, vindictive. Who acts: all, BOY. 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 25

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Then, at length, when all were peacefully feeding, he sat down upon a grassy hummock and looked around him, sad, lonely, vindictive.

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**Who acts:** all, BOY · **What happens:** feed, sit down, look · **To what, where:** length

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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: who acts (all, BOY), 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:pg66819:1:25
# text = Then, at length, when all were peacefully feeding, he sat down upon a grassy hummock and looked around him, sad, lonely, vindictive.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hummock	hummock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	vindictive	vindictive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past · progressive | all |  |  |  |  | peacefully *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | BOY |  |  | length | then | upon a grassy hummock | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location |
| 3 | **look** | past | BOY *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around BOY | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=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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