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title: He buckled his girdle about him, and with long strides hastened towa… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He buckled his girdle about him, and with long strides hastened toward the great house which he knew must be King Tuoni’s palace. Who acts: Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 124

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He buckled his girdle about him, and with long strides hastened toward the great house which he knew must be King Tuoni’s palace.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel · **What happens:** buckle, hasten, know, be · **To what, where:** girdle, long strides, great house, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel), 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:pg66819:14:124
# text = He buckled his girdle about him, and with long strides hastened toward the great house which he knew must be King Tuoni’s palace.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	buckled	buckle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	strides	stride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
12	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	Tuoni	Tuoni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
25	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buckle** | past | Minstrel | Minstrel's girdle |  |  |  | about Tuonela | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Patient |
| 2 | **hasten** | participle |  | long strides *not said here* |  | the great house |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward house=Trajectory |
| 3 | **know** | past | Minstrel | the great house |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | must |  | King's palace |  |  |  | with long strides; King *nmod:poss* | 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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