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title: His coat was of coarsest cloth, much patched; his trousers were of r… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: His coat was of coarsest cloth, much patched; his trousers were of reindeer skin; his stockings were of blue-dyed wool; his shoes were heavy and serviceable. Who acts: coat, trousers, stockings, shoes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy, with it
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 42

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His coat was of coarsest cloth, much patched; his trousers were of reindeer skin; his stockings were of blue-dyed wool; his shoes were heavy and serviceable.

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**Who acts:** coat, trousers, stockings, shoes · **What happens:** be, patch · **To what, where:** coarsest cloth

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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 (coat, trousers, stockings, shoes), 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:pg66819:29:42
# text = His coat was of coarsest cloth, much patched; his trousers were of reindeer skin; his stockings were of blue-dyed wool; his shoes were heavy and serviceable.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	coarsest	coarse	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	patched	patch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	stockings	stocking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	dyed	dyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	serviceable	serviceable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	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 | **is** | past | slave's coat |  |  |  |  | of coarsest cloth and reindeer skin and dyed wool | tree rules |
| 2 | **patch** | participle |  | coarsest cloth and reindeer skin and dyed wool *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | slave's trousers |  |  |  |  | of reindeer skin | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | slave's stockings |  |  |  |  | of dyed wool | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | slave's shoes |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | slave's shoes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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