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title: One after another, they marched slowly and orderly out of the marshe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: One after another, they marched slowly and orderly out of the marshes and out of the woods, the false milk cows going foremost calmly chewing their cuds, and the false yearlings gambolling behind. Who acts: One, false milk cows. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Bald
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 143

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One after another, they marched slowly and orderly out of the marshes and out of the woods, the false milk cows going foremost calmly chewing their cuds, and the false yearlings gambolling behind.

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**Who acts:** One, false milk cows · **What happens:** march, go, chew · **To what, where:** yearlings gambolling, marshes, cuds

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, false milk cows), 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:pg66819:29:143
# text = One after another, they marched slowly and orderly out of the marshes and out of the woods, the false milk cows going foremost calmly chewing their cuds, and the false yearlings gambolling behind.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	orderly	orderly	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
24	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	foremost	foremost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	cuds	cud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	yearlings	yearling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	compound	_	_
35	gambolling	gambolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
36	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **march** | past | One after another | yearlings gambolling |  | the marshes and the woods and the false milk cows |  | beasts *= beast* *nsubj*; behind, slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out marsh=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | the false milk cows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calmly, foremost *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **chew** | gerund | the false milk cows *not said here* | beasts's cuds |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient |

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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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