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title: The gates were open and unguarded, and he ran out into the fields, i… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The gates were open and unguarded, and he ran out into the fields, into the vast unknown beyond. Who acts: gates, heart. 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 44

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The gates were open and unguarded, and he ran out into the fields, into the vast unknown beyond.

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**Who acts:** gates, heart · **What happens:** be, run out · **To what, where:** fields

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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 (gates, heart), 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:pg66819:15:44
# text = The gates were open and unguarded, and he ran out into the fields, into the vast unknown beyond.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	unguarded	unguarded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	beyond	beyond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the gates |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the gates *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run out** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | into the fields *result*; the vast unknown beyond *parataxis* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into field=Result |

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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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