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title: And now her image seemed always before their eyes, and her voice see… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And now her image seemed always before their eyes, and her voice seemed calling to them through the misty and frost-laden air of the desolate North Land. Who acts: image, voice, laden air, Land. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat, with its
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 20

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And now her image seemed always before their eyes, and her voice seemed calling to them through the misty and frost-laden air of the desolate North Land.

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**Who acts:** image, voice, laden air, Land · **What happens:** seem, call, lade, desolate, image · **To what, where:** Minstrel, misty, North Land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (image, voice, laden air, Land), 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:pg66819:13:20
# text = And now her image seemed always before their eyes, and her voice seemed calling to them through the misty and frost-laden air of the desolate North Land.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
29	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Land's image |  |  |  | before Minstrel's eyes; now | always *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | Land's voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | Land's voice *not said here* |  | Minstrel | the misty and laden air |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 4 | **lade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | frost *compound* | tree rules |
| 5 | **desolate** | infinitive | laden air *not said here* | North Land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **image** |  | Land |  |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=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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