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title: And the messengers departed, carrying the invitations northward, sou… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And the messengers departed, carrying the invitations northward, southward, eastward, westward. Who acts: messengers. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 38

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And the messengers departed, carrying the invitations northward, southward, eastward, westward.

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**Who acts:** messengers · **What happens:** depart, carry · **To what, where:** invitations

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messengers), 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:pg66819:27:38
# text = And the messengers departed, carrying the invitations northward, southward, eastward, westward.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	invitations	invitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	southward	southward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	eastward	eastward	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	westward	westward	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depart** | past | the messengers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | the messengers *not said here* | the invitations |  |  |  | northward, southward *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=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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