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title: He sent him to pick berries in the marshes; but the worthless fellow… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He sent him to pick berries in the marshes; but the worthless fellow picked only the green fruit and trampled upon the ripe. Who acts: slave, worthless fellow. 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 ev
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 17

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He sent him to pick berries in the marshes; but the worthless fellow picked only the green fruit and trampled upon the ripe.

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**Who acts:** slave, worthless fellow · **What happens:** send, pick, trample · **To what, where:** boy, berries, marshes, green fruit, worthless fellow

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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, worthless fellow), 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:pg66819:29:17
# text = He sent him to pick berries in the marshes; but the worthless fellow picked only the green fruit and trampled upon the ripe.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	worthless	worthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | slave | boy |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **pick** | to-infinitive | slave *not said here* | berries |  | the marshes |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 3 | **pick** | participle | the worthless fellow *not said here* | the green fruit |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 4 | **trample** | participle · passive |  | the worthless fellow |  |  |  | upon the ripe | 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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