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title: He wandered over the silent meadows, he went out with the fishermen… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He wandered over the silent meadows, he went out with the fishermen to catch salmon in the sea, he visited one place and another in the vast Frozen Land, vainly trying to forget his grief. Who acts: Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 96

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He wandered over the silent meadows, he went out with the fishermen to catch salmon in the sea, he visited one place and another in the vast Frozen Land, vainly trying to forget his grief.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen · **What happens:** wander, go out, catch, visit, try, forget · **To what, where:** silent meadows, salmon, sea, one place, grief

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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 (Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:2:96
# text = He wandered over the silent meadows, he went out with the fishermen to catch salmon in the sea, he visited one place and another in the vast Frozen Land, vainly trying to forget his grief.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
16	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	vast	vast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
31	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | Wainamoinen |  |  | the silent meadows |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over meadow=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go out** | past | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  | with the fishermen; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fisherman=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen *not said here* | salmon |  | the sea |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme |
| 4 | **visit** | past | Wainamoinen | one place |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **try** | gerund | Wainamoinen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vainly *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **forget** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen *not said here* | Wainamoinen's grief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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