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title: He looked out and saw the lonely meadows and the snowy mountains and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked out and saw the lonely meadows and the snowy mountains and the cold gray sea. Who acts: Pohyola. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 70

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He looked out and saw the lonely meadows and the snowy mountains and the cold gray sea.

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**Who acts:** Pohyola · **What happens:** look out, see · **To what, where:** lonely meadows

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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 (Pohyola), 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:pg66819:2:70
# text = He looked out and saw the lonely meadows and the snowy mountains and the cold gray sea.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** | past | Pohyola |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | Pohyola *not said here* | the lonely meadows and the snowy mountains and the cold gray sea |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meadow=Stimulus |

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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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