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title: At length, just as the sun was setting, he saw his own fair dwelling… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, just as the sun was setting, he saw his own fair dwelling nestling among the trees of Wainola. Who acts: sun, own fair. 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 clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 33

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At length, just as the sun was setting, he saw his own fair dwelling nestling among the trees of Wainola.

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**Who acts:** sun, own fair · **What happens:** set, see, dwell, nestle · **To what, where:** own fair, length, trees

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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 (sun, own fair), 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:pg66819:28:33
# text = At length, just as the sun was setting, he saw his own fair dwelling nestling among the trees of Wainola.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	nestling	nestle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Wainola	Wainola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | sun | sun's own fair |  | length |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fair=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dwell** | gerund | sun's own fair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **nestle** | gerund | sun's own fair *not said here* |  |  | the trees of Wainola |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location |

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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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