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title: Here, back and forth upon the planking, the aged Mistress walked, po… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Here, back and forth upon the planking, the aged Mistress walked, pondering, planning, instructing, commanding. Who acts: aged Mistress. 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 9

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Here, back and forth upon the planking, the aged Mistress walked, pondering, planning, instructing, commanding.

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**Who acts:** aged Mistress · **What happens:** walk, ponder, instruct, command · **To what, where:** planning · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (aged Mistress), 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:pg66819:27:9
# text = Here, back and forth upon the planking, the aged Mistress walked, pondering, planning, instructing, commanding.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	planking	planking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	pondering	ponder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	instructing	instruct	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	commanding	command	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the aged Mistress |  |  | here |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ponder** | gerund | the aged Mistress *not said here* | planning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **instruct** *speech: other* | gerund | the aged Mistress *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **command** | gerund | the aged Mistress *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=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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