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title: Her color was golden, her neck and legs were like the wild deer’s, h… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Her color was golden, her neck and legs were like the wild deer’s, her horns were ivory, her eyes were wondrous large, and on her forehead was a disc of steely sunshine. Who acts: color, neck, eyes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dep
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 112

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Her color was golden, her neck and legs were like the wild deer’s, her horns were ivory, her eyes were wondrous large, and on her forehead was a disc of steely sunshine.

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**Who acts:** color, neck, eyes · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** disc, forehead

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (color, neck, eyes), 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:pg66819:10:112
# text = Her color was golden, her neck and legs were like the wild deer’s, her horns were ivory, her eyes were wondrous large, and on her forehead was a disc of steely sunshine.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	disc	disc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	steely	steely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | heifer's color |  |  |  |  | golden *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | heifer's neck and legs |  |  |  |  | like the wild deer's ivory; the wild deer *nmod:poss*; heifer's horns *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | heifer's eyes |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a disc |  | heifer's forehead |  | of steely sunshine | tree rules |

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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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