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title: His friendly neighbors saw how sadly the memory of his journey distr… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: His friendly neighbors saw how sadly the memory of his journey distressed him, and they asked no more questions. Who acts: friendly neighbors, memory, neighbor, strength. 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 p
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 46

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His friendly neighbors saw how sadly the memory of his journey distressed him, and they asked no more questions.

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**Who acts:** friendly neighbors, memory, neighbor, strength · **What happens:** see, distress, ask, journey · **To what, where:** strength, more questions

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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 (friendly neighbors, memory, neighbor, strength), 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:pg66819:16:46
# text = His friendly neighbors saw how sadly the memory of his journey distressed him, and they asked no more questions.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	distressed	distress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	no	no	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	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 | **see** | past | strength's friendly neighbors |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **distress** | past | the memory of strength's journey | strength |  |  |  | sadly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | neighbor | more questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 4 | **journey** |  | strength |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «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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