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title: And at her loom the Maid of Beauty plied her daily task, weaving fin… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And at her loom the Maid of Beauty plied her daily task, weaving fine blankets for winter wear, and sighing as she looked from her narrow window and out upon the lonely sea and the lonelier land. Who acts: Maid, Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin,
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 8

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And at her loom the Maid of Beauty plied her daily task, weaving fine blankets for winter wear, and sighing as she looked from her narrow window and out upon the lonely sea and the lonelier land.

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**Who acts:** Maid, Wainamoinen · **What happens:** ply, weave, sigh, look, task · **To what, where:** daily task, loom, fine blankets

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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 (Maid, Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:26:8
# text = And at her loom the Maid of Beauty plied her daily task, weaving fine blankets for winter wear, and sighing as she looked from her narrow window and out upon the lonely sea and the lonelier land.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	loom	loom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	plied	ply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wear	wear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	out	out	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	lonelier	lonely	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	amod	_	_
39	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ply** | past | the Maid of Beauty | Wainamoinen's daily task |  | Wainamoinen's loom |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent task=Recipient |
| 2 | **weave** | gerund | the Maid of Beauty *not said here* | fine blankets |  |  |  | for winter wear | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blanket=Product for wear=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **sigh** | gerund | the Maid of Beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | past | Maid |  |  |  |  | from Wainamoinen's narrow window and the lonely sea and the lonelier land | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from window=Theme |
| 5 | **task** |  | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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