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title: Women left off their knitting, they forgot their baking, and peered… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Women left off their knitting, they forgot their baking, and peered out wonderingly, into the gloomy twilight. Who acts: Women. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 12

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Women left off their knitting, they forgot their baking, and peered out wonderingly, into the gloomy twilight.

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**Who acts:** Women · **What happens:** leave off, forget, peer out, bake · **To what, where:** knitting, baking

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Women), 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:pg66819:16:12
# text = Women left off their knitting, they forgot their baking, and peered out wonderingly, into the gloomy twilight.
1	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	knitting	knitting	NOUN	NN	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	baking	baking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	peered	peer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	wonderingly	wonderingly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave off** | participle | Women *not said here* | Women's knitting |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knitting=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | past | Women | Women's baking |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **peer out** | participle | Women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the gloomy twilight *parataxis*; wonderingly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bake** |  | Women *= woman* |  |  |  |  |  | nom baking «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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