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title: He looked seaward, then landward—but naught did he behold save, on t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked seaward, then landward—but naught did he behold save, on this side, the blue water and the sloping shore and the fishermen’s huts, and, on that side, the brown marsh lands and the long, winding, indistinct roadway that led nowhere and came from everywhere. Who acts: man, naught, indistinct
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 76

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He looked seaward, then landward—but naught did he behold save, on this side, the blue water and the sloping shore and the fishermen’s huts, and, on that side, the brown marsh lands and the long, winding, indistinct roadway that led nowhere and came from everywhere.

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**Who acts:** man, naught, indistinct roadway · **What happens:** look, behold, save, slope, wind, lead · **To what, where:** seaward, side, indistinct roadway

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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 (man, naught, indistinct roadway), 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:pg66819:22:76
# text = He looked seaward, then landward—but naught did he behold save, on this side, the blue water and the sloping shore and the fishermen’s huts, and, on that side, the brown marsh lands and the long, winding, indistinct roadway that led nowhere and came from everywhere.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	seaward	seaward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	landward	landward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	sloping	slope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	amod	_	_
25	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	appos	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	indistinct	indistinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	roadway	roadway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
52	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
55	from	from	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | man | seaward |  |  |  | that side *parataxis* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme seaward=Attribute |
| 2 | **behold** | past · do-support | naught |  |  |  |  | man *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | naught *not said here* | this side |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
| 4 | **slope** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wind** | gerund | man *not said here* | indistinct roadway |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent roadway=Theme |
| 6 | **lead** | past | indistinct roadway |  |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 7 | **come** | past | indistinct roadway *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from everywhere=Initial\_Location |

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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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