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title: His face was haggard and worn, and his body was bent with weariness… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: His face was haggard and worn, and his body was bent with weariness from long journeying and much buffeting with the storm. Who acts: face. 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 19

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His face was haggard and worn, and his body was bent with weariness from long journeying and much buffeting with the storm.

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**Who acts:** face · **What happens:** be, bend, journey · **To what, where:** body

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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 (face), 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:pg66819:16:19
# text = His face was haggard and worn, and his body was bent with weariness from long journeying and much buffeting with the storm.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	haggard	haggard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	buffeting	buffeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	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 | stranger's face |  |  |  |  | haggard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | stranger's face *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bend** | past · passive |  | stranger's body |  |  |  | with weariness | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with weariness=Instrument |
| 4 | **journey** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the storm; much buffeting *conj*; long *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP 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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