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title: Narrow indeed it was, and crooked, and intricate; but for one whole… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Narrow indeed it was, and crooked, and intricate; but for one whole day—yes, for two days and even three—he followed it, never swerving. Who acts: you, footpath, planter, two days. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper, with its dependency tree
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 67

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Narrow indeed it was, and crooked, and intricate; but for one whole day—yes, for two days and even three—he followed it, never swerving.

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**Who acts:** you, footpath, planter, two days · **What happens:** narrow, be, follow, not swerve · **To what, where:** footpath

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, footpath, planter, two days), 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:pg66819:17:67
# text = Narrow indeed it was, and crooked, and intricate; but for one whole day—yes, for two days and even three—he followed it, never swerving.
1	Narrow	narrow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	intricate	intricate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	swerving	swerve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **narrow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | footpath |  |  |  |  | intricate *conj*; crooked *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | past | planter | footpath |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **swerve** | gerund | two days |  |  |  | day |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «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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