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title: “There are seven racers in your stables, all trusty and true—seven f… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “There are seven racers in your stables, all trusty and true—seven fleet-footed steeds of rare strength and mettle. Who acts: seven racers. 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 134

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“There are seven racers in your stables, all trusty and true—seven fleet-footed steeds of rare strength and mettle.

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**Who acts:** seven racers · **What happens:** be

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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 (seven racers), 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:pg66819:20:134
# text = “There are seven racers in your stables, all trusty and true—seven fleet-footed steeds of rare strength and mettle.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	racers	racer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
11	trusty	trusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
16	fleet	fleet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	mettle	mettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** *in a quote* | present | seven racers in your stables and all trusty seven footed steeds of rare strength and mettle |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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