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title: See the clothes that are spread on the sandy beach to dry. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: See the clothes that are spread on the sandy beach to dry. Who acts: you. 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 34

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See the clothes that are spread on the sandy beach to dry.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, spread, dry · **To what, where:** clothes, sandy beach

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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 (you), 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:pg66819:19:34
# text = See the clothes that are spread on the sandy beach to dry.
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | the clothes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus |
| 2 | **spread** | present · passive |  | the clothes |  | the sandy beach |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on beach=Destination |
| 3 | **dry** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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