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title: “In those pleasant waters many wild geese abound, and there they bui… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “In those pleasant waters many wild geese abound, and there they build their nests and rear their young. Who acts: pleasant waters, geese. 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 67

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“In those pleasant waters many wild geese abound, and there they build their nests and rear their young.

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**Who acts:** pleasant waters, geese · **What happens:** abound, build, rear · **To what, where:** nests, young

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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 (pleasant waters, geese), 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:pg66819:19:67
# text = “In those pleasant waters many wild geese abound, and there they build their nests and rear their young.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	abound	abound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	rear	rear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abound** *in a quote* | present | that pleasant waters  many wild geese |  |  |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **build** *in a quote* | present | geese *= goose* | geese's nests |  | there |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product |
| 3 | **rear** *in a quote* | present | geese *= goose* *not said here* | geese's young |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=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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