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title: Her eyes wandered to the bleak, brown meadows, and she gazed wistful… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Her eyes wandered to the bleak, brown meadows, and she gazed wistfully towards the pathway which led from the distant hills. Who acts: eyes, Maid, pathway. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 22

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Her eyes wandered to the bleak, brown meadows, and she gazed wistfully towards the pathway which led from the distant hills.

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**Who acts:** eyes, Maid, pathway · **What happens:** wander, gaze, lead · **To what, where:** bleak, distant hills

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Maid, pathway), 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:pg66819:23:22
# text = Her eyes wandered to the bleak, brown meadows, and she gazed wistfully towards the pathway which led from the distant hills.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bleak	bleak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	wistfully	wistfully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | Maid's eyes |  |  | the bleak and brown meadows |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bleak=Destination |
| 2 | **gaze** | past | Maid |  |  |  |  | towards the pathway; wistfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards pathway=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | past | the pathway |  |  | the distant hills |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from hill=Destination |

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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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