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title: The sun was now well down towards the western hills, and the evening… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun was now well down towards the western hills, and the evening milking time was nigh at hand. Who acts: sun, milking time. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 144

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The sun was now well down towards the western hills, and the evening milking time was nigh at hand.

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**Who acts:** sun, milking time · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** hand

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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 (sun, milking time), 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:pg66819:29:144
# text = The sun was now well down towards the western hills, and the evening milking time was nigh at hand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
7	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	milking	milking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	nigh	nigh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the sun |  |  |  | now | towards the western hills; down, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the milking time |  |  | hand |  | nigh *property* | tree rules |

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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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