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title: Twelve broad furrows he made towards the east, towards the west; twe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Twelve broad furrows he made towards the east, towards the west; twelve other furrows he made towards the north, towards the south. Who acts: Twelve broad furrows, twelve other furrows. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike, with its dependency tr
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 16

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Twelve broad furrows he made towards the east, towards the west; twelve other furrows he made towards the north, towards the south.

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**Who acts:** Twelve broad furrows, twelve other furrows · **What happens:** make

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twelve broad furrows, twelve other furrows), 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:pg66819:25:16
# text = Twelve broad furrows he made towards the east, towards the west; twelve other furrows he made towards the north, towards the south.
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	furrows	furrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	furrows	furrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Twelve broad furrows |  |  |  |  | towards the east; towards the west; man *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **make** | past | twelve other furrows |  |  |  |  | towards the north; towards the south; man *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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