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title: Then he drove with speed, out through the shadowy pine woods and acr… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he drove with speed, out through the shadowy pine woods and across the desolate plains, till he came to the field of serpents—a barren waste lying cold and dreary under the empty sky. Who acts: hero, barren waste. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The F
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 96

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Then he drove with speed, out through the shadowy pine woods and across the desolate plains, till he came to the field of serpents—a barren waste lying cold and dreary under the empty sky.

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**Who acts:** hero, barren waste · **What happens:** drive, desolate, come, lie · **To what, where:** shadowy pine woods, plains, field, cold, empty sky

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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 (hero, barren waste), 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:pg66819:24:96
# text = Then he drove with speed, out through the shadowy pine woods and across the desolate plains, till he came to the field of serpents—a barren waste lying cold and dreary under the empty sky.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	across	across	ADP	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	barren	barren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
31	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	under	under	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | hero |  |  | the shadowy pine woods | then | with speed | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive | hero *not said here* | plains |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | hero |  |  | the field of serpents |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | a barren waste *not said here* | cold |  | the empty sky |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cold=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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