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title: The bread must be baked, and this pile of wool must be spun, and fro… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The bread must be baked, and this pile of wool must be spun, and from its yarn six new blankets must be woven this very day. Who acts: pile. 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 25

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The bread must be baked, and this pile of wool must be spun, and from its yarn six new blankets must be woven this very day.

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**Who acts:** pile · **What happens:** bake, spin, weave, yarn · **To what, where:** bread, pile, yarn

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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 (pile), 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:pg66819:22:25
# text = The bread must be baked, and this pile of wool must be spun, and from its yarn six new blankets must be woven this very day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
20	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | must · passive |  | the bread |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **spin** | must · passive |  | this pile of wool |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **weave** | must · passive |  |  |  | pile's yarn  six new blankets | day |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: from yarn=Trajectory |
| 4 | **yarn** |  | pile |  |  |  |  |  | nom yarn «communication intransitive»: poss=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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