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title: Twelve furrows you must make lengthwise of the field, and twelve fur… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Twelve furrows you must make lengthwise of the field, and twelve furrows you must make crosswise; and you must plough it deep, without touching either beam or handles.” Who acts: Twelve furrows, you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, w
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 31

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Twelve furrows you must make lengthwise of the field, and twelve furrows you must make crosswise; and you must plough it deep, without touching either beam or handles.”

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**Who acts:** Twelve furrows, you · **What happens:** make, plough, touch · **To what, where:** field, beam

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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 (Twelve furrows, you), 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:pg66819:24:31
# text = Twelve furrows you must make lengthwise of the field, and twelve furrows you must make crosswise; and you must plough it deep, without touching either beam or handles.”
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	furrows	furrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	lengthwise	lengthwise	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	furrows	furrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	crosswise	crosswise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	plough	plough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
28	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	handles	handle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | must | Twelve furrows | the field |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset field=Product |
| 2 | **make** | must | twelve furrows |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj*; crosswise *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **plough** | must | you | field |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **touch** | gerund | you *not said here* | either beam or handles |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beam=Co-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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