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title: Who, in the short summer, would caress the wildflowers in the wooded… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Who, in the short summer, would caress the wildflowers in the wooded nooks and sing to the violets in the meadows? A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 30

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Who, in the short summer, would caress the wildflowers in the wooded nooks and sing to the violets in the meadows?

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**What happens:** caress, wood, sing · **To what, where:** wildflowers, wooded nooks, violets

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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: 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:pg66819:12:30
# text = Who, in the short summer, would caress the wildflowers in the wooded nooks and sing to the violets in the meadows?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	caress	caress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wildflowers	wildflower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wooded	wood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	nooks	nook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **caress** | would |  | the wildflowers |  | the wooded nooks |  | Who *nsubj* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wildflower=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive |  |  | the violets in the meadows |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to violet=Recipient |

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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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