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title: Her cheeks were like the dawn of a summer’s morning; her lips were l… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Her cheeks were like the dawn of a summer’s morning; her lips were like two ripe, red berries with rows of pearls between; her eyes were like glorious suns, shining softly in the midst of heaven. Who acts: cheeks, lips, eyes, glorious suns. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» b
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 10

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Her cheeks were like the dawn of a summer’s morning; her lips were like two ripe, red berries with rows of pearls between; her eyes were like glorious suns, shining softly in the midst of heaven.

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**Who acts:** cheeks, lips, eyes, glorious suns · **What happens:** be, shine · **To what, where:** midst

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheeks, lips, eyes, glorious suns), 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:pg66819:12:10
# text = Her cheeks were like the dawn of a summer’s morning; her lips were like two ripe, red berries with rows of pearls between; her eyes were like glorious suns, shining softly in the midst of heaven.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
18	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	suns	sun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
36	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Dame's cheeks |  |  |  | like the dawn; morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Dame's lips |  |  |  |  | like two ripe red berries and glorious suns; with rows of pearls | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Dame's eyes |  |  |  |  | like glorious suns | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund | glorious suns *not said here* |  |  | the midst of heaven |  | softly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |

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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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