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title: His hair was a golden yellow; his cheeks were as ruddy as cranberrie… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: His hair was a golden yellow; his cheeks were as ruddy as cranberries in the late days of autumn; his eyes sparkled like two full moons when the sky is clear and the winds are at rest. Who acts: hair, cheeks, eyes, sky. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 112

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His hair was a golden yellow; his cheeks were as ruddy as cranberries in the late days of autumn; his eyes sparkled like two full moons when the sky is clear and the winds are at rest.

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**Who acts:** hair, cheeks, eyes, sky, winds · **What happens:** be, sparkle · **To what, where:** golden yellow, rest

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, cheeks, eyes, sky), 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:pg66819:20:112
# text = His hair was a golden yellow; his cheeks were as ruddy as cranberries in the late days of autumn; his eyes sparkled like two full moons when the sky is clear and the winds are at rest.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	yellow	yellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	cranberries	cranberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Smith's hair | a golden yellow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Smith's cheeks |  |  |  |  | as cranberries in the late days of autumn; ruddy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sparkle** | participle | Smith's eyes |  |  |  |  | like two full moons | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the sky |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the winds |  |  | rest |  |  | 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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