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title: On the third day the poor man rose and sat in his old accustomed sea… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On the third day the poor man rose and sat in his old accustomed seat by the fire—he seemed quite well and strong. Who acts: poor man, stranger. 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 29

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On the third day the poor man rose and sat in his old accustomed seat by the fire—he seemed quite well and strong.

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**Who acts:** poor man, stranger · **What happens:** rise, sit, accustom, seem · **To what, where:** old accustomed seat

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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 (poor man, stranger), 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:pg66819:16:29
# text = On the third day the poor man rose and sat in his old accustomed seat by the fire—he seemed quite well and strong.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the poor man |  |  |  | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the poor man *not said here* |  |  | stranger's old accustomed seat |  | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location |
| 3 | **accustom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | past | stranger |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: 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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