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title: Over his shoulders he wore a sky-blue shawl, thick and soft. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Over his shoulders he wore a sky-blue shawl, thick and soft. Who acts: Smith. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 119

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Over his shoulders he wore a sky-blue shawl, thick and soft.

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**Who acts:** Smith · **What happens:** wear · **To what, where:** blue shawl, shoulders

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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 (Smith), 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:pg66819:20:119
# text = Over his shoulders he wore a sky-blue shawl, thick and soft.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shawl	shawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | Smith | a blue shawl |  | Smith's shoulders |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shawl=Theme |

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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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