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title: One of her fair hands was raised to shade her face from the glaring… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: One of her fair hands was raised to shade her face from the glaring noonday sun; in the other she held a bundle of long silken ribbons which she had been washing in the sea. Who acts: Midway, long silken ribbons. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 20

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One of her fair hands was raised to shade her face from the glaring noonday sun; in the other she held a bundle of long silken ribbons which she had been washing in the sea.

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**Who acts:** Midway, long silken ribbons · **What happens:** raise, shade, hold, wash · **To what, where:** One, face, bundle, other, sea

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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 (Midway, long silken ribbons), 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:pg66819:19:20
# text = One of her fair hands was raised to shade her face from the glaring noonday sun; in the other she held a bundle of long silken ribbons which she had been washing in the sea.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	shade	shade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	glaring	glaring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	noonday	noonday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux	_	_
33	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past · passive |  | One of Midway's fair hands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shade** | to-infinitive |  | Midway's face |  |  |  | from the glaring noonday sun | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Beneficiary from sun=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | past | Midway | a bundle of long silken ribbons |  | the other |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme in other=Location |
| 4 | **wash** | past · perfect · progressive | long silken ribbons |  |  | the sea |  | Midway *nsubj* | vn floss-41.2.1 «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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