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title: At length, deep in the silent forest he found a great stone all stre… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, deep in the silent forest he found a great stone all streaked and striped in colors of the rainbow. Who acts: Ilmarinen. 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 42

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At length, deep in the silent forest he found a great stone all streaked and striped in colors of the rainbow.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** find, streak, stripe · **To what, where:** great stone, colors

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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), 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:pg66819:10:42
# text = At length, deep in the silent forest he found a great stone all streaked and striped in colors of the rainbow.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	streaked	streak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	striped	stripe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Ilmarinen | a great stone |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic |
| 2 | **streak** | participle |  | a great stone *not said here* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stripe** | participle |  |  |  | colors of the rainbow |  |  | 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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