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title: Midway between the boat and the sandy, pebbly bar a maiden was stand… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Midway between the boat and the sandy, pebbly bar a maiden was standing knee-deep in the quiet water. Who acts: maiden. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 16

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Midway between the boat and the sandy, pebbly bar a maiden was standing knee-deep in the quiet water.

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**Who acts:** maiden · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** sandy pebbly bar, Midway

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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 (maiden), 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:pg66819:19:16
# text = Midway between the boat and the sandy, pebbly bar a maiden was standing knee-deep in the quiet water.
1	Midway	Midway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · progressive | a maiden | the sandy pebbly bar *not said here* |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bar=Stimulus |

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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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