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title: The meadows were purple and golden, but fast putting on their accust… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The meadows were purple and golden, but fast putting on their accustomed robes of dreary brown. Who acts: meadows. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 4

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The meadows were purple and golden, but fast putting on their accustomed robes of dreary brown.

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**Who acts:** meadows · **What happens:** be, put · **To what, where:** accustomed robes

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meadows), 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:pg66819:26:4
# text = The meadows were purple and golden, but fast putting on their accustomed robes of dreary brown.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	accustomed	accustomed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the meadows |  |  |  |  | purple *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the meadows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the meadows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | gerund | the meadows *not said here* |  |  | meadows's accustomed robes of dreary brown |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on robe=Destination |

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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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