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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 19

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He looked, and on the farther side he saw a gray castle and a long white shore, and he knew that it was Tuoni’s land—the land of silence and of mystery.

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**Who acts:** E, shore · **What happens:** look, see, know, be · **To what, where:** gray castle, farther side, 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 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 (E, shore), 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:pg66819:14:19
# text = He looked, and on the farther side he saw a gray castle and a long white shore, and he knew that it was Tuoni’s land—the land of silence and of mystery.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	Tuoni	Tuoni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | E |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | E | a gray castle and a long white shore |  | the farther side |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | past | E |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | shore | Tuoni's land |  |  |  | Tuoni *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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