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title: Farewell, dear house; farewell, my mountain-ash tree; farewell, road… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Farewell, dear house; farewell, my mountain-ash tree; farewell, roads and pathways; farewell, sweet hills and forests. 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 9

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Farewell, dear house; farewell, my mountain-ash tree; farewell, roads and pathways; farewell, sweet hills and forests.

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**To what, where:** dear house

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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: 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:pg66819:28:9
# text = Farewell, dear house; farewell, my mountain-ash tree; farewell, roads and pathways; farewell, sweet hills and forests.
1	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pathways	pathway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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