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title: Thus the haunts of the serpents were broken up, and the field of dre… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus the haunts of the serpents were broken up, and the field of dread was made fertile and safe, a fit place for trees to grow and grass to flourish. Who acts: trees. 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 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 110

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Thus the haunts of the serpents were broken up, and the field of dread was made fertile and safe, a fit place for trees to grow and grass to flourish.

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**Who acts:** trees · **What happens:** break up, make, grow, flourish · **To what, where:** haunts, field

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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 (trees), 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:pg66819:24:110
# text = Thus the haunts of the serpents were broken up, and the field of dread was made fertile and safe, a fit place for trees to grow and grass to flourish.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	haunts	haunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	flourish	flourish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break up** | past · passive |  | the haunts of the serpents |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | the field of dread |  |  |  | a fit place *obl*; fertile *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | trees |  |  |  |  | grass *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **flourish** | to-infinitive | trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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