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title: Her washing was left behind, where she had spread the pieces to dry;… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Her washing was left behind, where she had spread the pieces to dry; her ribbons were scattered upon the sand; even her shoes were forgotten, so hasty was her flight. Who acts: washing, wind. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning, with it
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 122

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Her washing was left behind, where she had spread the pieces to dry; her ribbons were scattered upon the sand; even her shoes were forgotten, so hasty was her flight.

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**Who acts:** washing, wind · **What happens:** leave behind, spread, dry, scatter, forget, be · **To what, where:** washing, pieces, ribbons, sand, shoes, hasty flight

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (washing, wind), 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:pg66819:19:122
# text = Her washing was left behind, where she had spread the pieces to dry; her ribbons were scattered upon the sand; even her shoes were forgotten, so hasty was her flight.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave behind** | past · passive |  | wind's washing |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **spread** | past · perfect | washing | the pieces |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme |
| 3 | **dry** | to-infinitive | washing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **scatter** | past · passive |  | wind's ribbons |  | the sand |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon sand=Destination |
| 5 | **forget** | past · passive |  | wind's shoes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | wind's hasty flight |  |  |  | wind *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 7 | **wash** |  | wind |  |  |  |  |  | nom washing «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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