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title: No beard was yet on his chin or sun-browned cheeks; his eyes were bl… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: No beard was yet on his chin or sun-browned cheeks; his eyes were blue with shades of savagery lurking in their depths; his uncombed hair was yellow, long, and frowzy. Who acts: beard, eyes, uncombed hair. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy, wit
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 43

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No beard was yet on his chin or sun-browned cheeks; his eyes were blue with shades of savagery lurking in their depths; his uncombed hair was yellow, long, and frowzy.

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**Who acts:** beard, eyes, uncombed hair · **What happens:** be, brown, shade · **To what, where:** chin, savagery lurking

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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 (beard, eyes, uncombed hair), 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:pg66819:29:43
# text = No beard was yet on his chin or sun-browned cheeks; his eyes were blue with shades of savagery lurking in their depths; his uncombed hair was yellow, long, and frowzy.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	browned	brown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	shades	shade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	savagery	savagery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	lurking	lurking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	uncombed	uncombed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	frowzy	frowzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no beard |  |  | slave's chin or browned cheeks | yet | slave *nmod:poss*; browned cheeks *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **brown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | sun *compound* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | slave's eyes |  |  |  |  | with shades of savagery lurking in eyes's depths; blue *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | slave's uncombed hair |  |  |  |  | yellow *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | slave's uncombed hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | slave's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **shade** |  |  | savagery lurking in eyes's depths |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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