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title: On the winding meadow pathway he saw another speck, scarlet, yellow,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On the winding meadow pathway he saw another speck, scarlet, yellow, and blue, moving fleetly towards Pohyola, smoothly gliding like a flying bird. Who acts: man. 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
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 84

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On the winding meadow pathway he saw another speck, scarlet, yellow, and blue, moving fleetly towards Pohyola, smoothly gliding like a flying bird.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** wind, see, move, glide, fly · **To what, where:** speck, winding meadow pathway, Pohyola

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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), 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:pg66819:22:84
# text = On the winding meadow pathway he saw another speck, scarlet, yellow, and blue, moving fleetly towards Pohyola, smoothly gliding like a flying bird.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
4	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	speck	speck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	fleetly	fleetly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wind** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | man | another speck and scarlet |  | the winding meadow pathway |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer speck=Stimulus |
| 3 | **move** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  | Pohyola |  | fleetly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards pohyola=Trajectory |
| 4 | **glide** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a flying bird; smoothly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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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