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title: No barren spot nor stony space was left unturned, no blasted shrub n… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: No barren spot nor stony space was left unturned, no blasted shrub nor baneful vine was unuprooted. Who acts: blasted shrub. 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 109

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No barren spot nor stony space was left unturned, no blasted shrub nor baneful vine was unuprooted.

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**Who acts:** blasted shrub · **What happens:** leave, blast, be · **To what, where:** barren spot

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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 (blasted shrub), 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:pg66819:24:109
# text = No barren spot nor stony space was left unturned, no blasted shrub nor baneful vine was unuprooted.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	barren	barren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
5	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	unturned	unturned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	blasted	blast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	shrub	shrub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
15	baneful	baneful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	unuprooted	unuprooted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | no barren spot nor stony space |  |  |  | unturned *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **blast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | no blasted shrub nor baneful vine |  |  |  |  | unuprooted *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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