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title: One stranger comes by sea, another comes by land, and the poor beast… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: One stranger comes by sea, another comes by land, and the poor beasts have scented them both while yet they are far away.” Who acts: One stranger, another, dogs. 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 87

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One stranger comes by sea, another comes by land, and the poor beasts have scented them both while yet they are far away.”

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**Who acts:** One stranger, another, dogs · **What happens:** come, scent, be · **To what, where:** poor beasts

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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 (One stranger, another, dogs), 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:pg66819:22:87
# text = One stranger comes by sea, another comes by land, and the poor beasts have scented them both while yet they are far away.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	scented	scent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	both	both	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | One stranger |  |  |  |  | by sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location |
| 2 | **come** | present | another |  |  |  |  | by land | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by land=Location |
| 3 | **scent** | present · perfect · passive |  | the poor beasts |  |  |  | dogs *= dog* *obj*; both *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | away, far *property* | tree rules |

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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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