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title: Away from the shore, she saw the broad meadows lying lonely and stil… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Away from the shore, she saw the broad meadows lying lonely and still under the lonely sky and beyond them the dark line which marked the beginning of the forest and the rugged land of mountains. Who acts: maiden, broad meadows, dark line. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 29

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Away from the shore, she saw the broad meadows lying lonely and still under the lonely sky and beyond them the dark line which marked the beginning of the forest and the rugged land of mountains.

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**Who acts:** maiden, broad meadows, dark line · **What happens:** see, lie, mark, begin · **To what, where:** broad meadows, shore, beginning, forest

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, broad meadows, dark line), 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:pg66819:2:29
# text = Away from the shore, she saw the broad meadows lying lonely and still under the lonely sky and beyond them the dark line which marked the beginning of the forest and the rugged land of mountains.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	rugged	rugged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | maiden | the broad meadows |  | the shore |  | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meadow=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | the broad meadows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lonely *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mark** | past | the dark line | the beginning of the forest and the rugged land of mountains |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent beginning=Destination |
| 4 | **begin** |  |  | the forest and the rugged land of mountains |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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