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title: On this side and on that the earth was heaped up, nor did rocks or r… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On this side and on that the earth was heaped up, nor did rocks or roots stand in the way of the cleaving ploughshare. Who acts: rocks. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 106

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On this side and on that the earth was heaped up, nor did rocks or roots stand in the way of the cleaving ploughshare.

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**Who acts:** rocks · **What happens:** heap up, do, stand, cleave · **To what, where:** earth, side, way

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocks), 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:pg66819:24:106
# text = On this side and on that the earth was heaped up, nor did rocks or roots stand in the way of the cleaving ploughshare.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	heaped	heap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	cleaving	cleave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	ploughshare	ploughshare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heap up** | past · passive |  | the earth |  | this side |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on side=Destination |
| 2 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | present | rocks or roots |  |  | the way of the cleaving ploughshare |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |
| 4 | **cleave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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