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title: From his belt he unloosed his herdsman’s whistle, a whistle carved f… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: From his belt he unloosed his herdsman’s whistle, a whistle carved from an ox’s horn; he put it to his lips and blew it loudly, shrilly. Who acts: sun, herdsman. 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 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 154

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From his belt he unloosed his herdsman’s whistle, a whistle carved from an ox’s horn; he put it to his lips and blew it loudly, shrilly.

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**Who acts:** sun, herdsman · **What happens:** unloose, carve, put, blow, whistle · **To what, where:** whistle, belt, horn

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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, herdsman), 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:pg66819:29:154
# text = From his belt he unloosed his herdsman’s whistle, a whistle carved from an ox’s horn; he put it to his lips and blew it loudly, shrilly.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	unloosed	unloose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	shrilly	shrilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **unloose** | past | sun | sun's herdsman's whistle |  | sun's belt |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carve** | participle |  | a whistle *not said here* |  | a ox's horn |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** | past | sun | whistle |  |  |  | to sun's lips | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 4 | **blow** | past | sun *not said here* | whistle |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **whistle** |  | sun's herdsman |  |  |  |  |  | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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