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title: With much care she chose a stick of rowan, straight, smooth-barked,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With much care she chose a stick of rowan, straight, smooth-barked, and full of sap. Who acts: Maid. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 120

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With much care she chose a stick of rowan, straight, smooth-barked, and full of sap.

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**Who acts:** Maid · **What happens:** choose, bark · **To what, where:** stick

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maid), 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:pg66819:22:120
# text = With much care she chose a stick of rowan, straight, smooth-barked, and full of sap.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rowan	rowan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	barked	bark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | Maid | a stick of rowan |  |  |  | with much care | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 2 | **bark** | participle | Maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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