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title: “And when I swept my brush across from east to west, some drops of b… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “And when I swept my brush across from east to west, some drops of blue fell into the sea and colored it also.” Who acts: Ilmarinen, drops. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 15

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“And when I swept my brush across from east to west, some drops of blue fell into the sea and colored it also.”

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, drops · **What happens:** sweep, fall, color · **To what, where:** brush, east, sea

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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 (Ilmarinen, drops), 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:pg66819:10:15
# text = “And when I swept my brush across from east to west, some drops of blue fell into the sea and colored it also.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	across	across	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	colored	color	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** *in a quote* | past | Ilmarinen | my brush |  | east to west |  | across *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent brush=Theme from east=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | some drops of blue |  |  |  |  | into the sea *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result |
| 3 | **color** *in a quote* | past | some drops of blue *not said here* | brush |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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