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title: Across the broad meadows, over the hills, through dark ravines, alon… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Across the broad meadows, over the hills, through dark ravines, along the sandy shore the hero pursued his course, never pausing, never doubting. Who acts: hero. 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 o
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 28

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Across the broad meadows, over the hills, through dark ravines, along the sandy shore the hero pursued his course, never pausing, never doubting.

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**Who acts:** hero · **What happens:** pursue, not pause, not doubt · **To what, where:** course, broad meadows

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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 (hero), 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:pg66819:28:28
# text = Across the broad meadows, over the hills, through dark ravines, along the sandy shore the hero pursued his course, never pausing, never doubting.
1	Across	across	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ravines	ravine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	pausing	pause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	doubting	doubt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | past | the hero | hero's course |  | the broad meadows and the hills and dark ravines |  | along the sandy shore | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent course=Theme across meadow=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **pause** | gerund | the hero *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **doubt** | gerund | the hero *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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