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title: And round about the feet of the workmen lichens and leafy plants gre… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And round about the feet of the workmen lichens and leafy plants grew up, and in the crannies of the rocks wild flowers bloomed, nourished by the warmth from the magic forge. Who acts: feet. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 68

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And round about the feet of the workmen lichens and leafy plants grew up, and in the crannies of the rocks wild flowers bloomed, nourished by the warmth from the magic forge.

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**Who acts:** feet · **What happens:** grow up, bloom, nourish · **To what, where:** crannies, wild flowers, rocks

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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 (feet), 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:pg66819:10:68
# text = And round about the feet of the workmen lichens and leafy plants grew up, and in the crannies of the rocks wild flowers bloomed, nourished by the warmth from the magic forge.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	workmen	workman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
9	lichens	lichen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crannies	cranny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	nourished	nourish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	forge	forge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | past | the feet |  |  | the crannies of the rocks and wild flowers |  | of the workmen; lichens and leafy plants *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cranny=Location |
| 2 | **bloom** | participle |  | wild flowers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **nourish** | participle |  | the rocks and wild flowers *not said here* |  |  |  | by the warmth from the magic forge | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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