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title: An old, old woman, gray-eyed, hook-nosed, wrinkled, was sitting on t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: An old, old woman, gray-eyed, hook-nosed, wrinkled, was sitting on the rock and busily spinning. Who acts: old old woman. 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 clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 4

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An old, old woman, gray-eyed, hook-nosed, wrinkled, was sitting on the rock and busily spinning.

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**Who acts:** old old woman · **What happens:** nose, wrinkle, sit, spin · **To what, where:** rock

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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 (old old woman), 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:pg66819:15:4
# text = An old, old woman, gray-eyed, hook-nosed, wrinkled, was sitting on the rock and busily spinning.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	nosed	nose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | hook *compound* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wrinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sit** | past · progressive | a old old woman |  |  | the rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location |
| 4 | **spin** | gerund | a old old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | busily *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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