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title: One word to the steed, and they were away; the low-roofed dwelling,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: One word to the steed, and they were away; the low-roofed dwelling, the village, the friends at Pohyola, all were quickly left behind. Who acts: words. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 18

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One word to the steed, and they were away; the low-roofed dwelling, the village, the friends at Pohyola, all were quickly left behind.

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**Who acts:** words · **What happens:** be, roof, leave behind · **To what, where:** all, One word

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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:pg66819:28:18
# text = One word to the steed, and they were away; the low-roofed dwelling, the village, the friends at Pohyola, all were quickly left behind.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	roofed	roof	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
30	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **roof** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave behind** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  | behind, quickly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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