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title: Her head was bare, save for the long, dark tresses that fell in prof… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Her head was bare, save for the long, dark tresses that fell in profusion over her shoulders and dipped their ends into the wavelets that were playing modestly above her bare white ankles. Who acts: head, long dark tresses, wavelets. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 17

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Her head was bare, save for the long, dark tresses that fell in profusion over her shoulders and dipped their ends into the wavelets that were playing modestly above her bare white ankles.

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**Who acts:** head, long dark tresses, wavelets · **What happens:** be, save, fall, dip, play · **To what, where:** profusion, ends, wavelets, bare white ankles

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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 (head, long dark tresses, wavelets), 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:pg66819:19:17
# text = Her head was bare, save for the long, dark tresses that fell in profusion over her shoulders and dipped their ends into the wavelets that were playing modestly above her bare white ankles.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tresses	tress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	profusion	profusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dipped	dip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wavelets	wavelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	modestly	modestly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	above	above	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ankles	ankle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Midway's head |  |  |  |  | bare *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive | Midway's head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the long dark tresses | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for tress=Source |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the long dark tresses |  |  | profusion |  | over Midway's shoulders | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in profusion=Location |
| 4 | **dip** | past | the long dark tresses *not said here* | shoulders's ends |  | the wavelets |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Theme into wavelet=Destination |
| 5 | **play** | past · progressive | the wavelets |  |  | Midway's bare white ankles |  | modestly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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