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title: Meanwhile all the people of Pohyola, men and women, boys and girls,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile all the people of Pohyola, men and women, boys and girls, and even the barking dogs, had run down to the waterside to watch the coming of the little ship. 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 prag
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 48

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Meanwhile all the people of Pohyola, men and women, boys and girls, and even the barking dogs, had run down to the waterside to watch the coming of the little ship.

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**What happens:** bark, run down, watch, come

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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: 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:pg66819:23:48
# text = Meanwhile all the people of Pohyola, men and women, boys and girls, and even the barking dogs, had run down to the waterside to watch the coming of the little ship.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	waterside	waterside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run down** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | to the waterside *result*; meanwhile *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to waterside=Result |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the little ship | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of ship=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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