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title: Homeward, over the hills and along the well-known pathways, the slav… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Homeward, over the hills and along the well-known pathways, the slave boy drove his herd. Who acts: slave boy. 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 145

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Homeward, over the hills and along the well-known pathways, the slave boy drove his herd.

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**Who acts:** slave boy · **What happens:** know, drive · **To what, where:** Homeward

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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 (slave boy), 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:pg66819:29:145
# text = Homeward, over the hills and along the well-known pathways, the slave boy drove his herd.
1	Homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	pathways	pathway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **drive** | past | the slave boy | Homeward and the hills and the known pathways |  |  |  | boy's herd *obj* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme |

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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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