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title: Thus, in that short silent night of summer, he wove a hundred broad… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, in that short silent night of summer, he wove a hundred broad nets of iron—yes, a thousand small-meshed nets of twisted metal. Who acts: Hag. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 30

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Thus, in that short silent night of summer, he wove a hundred broad nets of iron—yes, a thousand small-meshed nets of twisted metal.

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**Who acts:** Hag · **What happens:** weave, mesh · **To what, where:** hundred broad nets

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hag), 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:pg66819:15:30
# text = Thus, in that short silent night of summer, he wove a hundred broad nets of iron—yes, a thousand small-meshed nets of twisted metal.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wove	weave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
24	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	meshed	mesh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | past | Hag | hundred broad nets of iron |  |  | night | thousand meshed nets of twisted metal *obl*; thus *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product |
| 2 | **mesh** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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