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title: The broad-horned oxen crowded themselves out into the road and walke… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The broad-horned oxen crowded themselves out into the road and walked briskly but sedately down the well-worn pathway towards their accustomed pasture, the mild-eyed milk cows followed, and the calves and yearlings hurried impatiently to the front. Who acts: horned oxen, eyed milk cows, calves. A se
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 45

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The broad-horned oxen crowded themselves out into the road and walked briskly but sedately down the well-worn pathway towards their accustomed pasture, the mild-eyed milk cows followed, and the calves and yearlings hurried impatiently to the front.

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**Who acts:** horned oxen, eyed milk cows, calves · **What happens:** crowd out, walk, wear, follow, hurry · **To what, where:** oxen, road, worn pathway, front

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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 (horned oxen, eyed milk cows, calves), 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:pg66819:29:45
# text = The broad-horned oxen crowded themselves out into the road and walked briskly but sedately down the well-worn pathway towards their accustomed pasture, the mild-eyed milk cows followed, and the calves and yearlings hurried impatiently to the front.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	horned	horned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	briskly	briskly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	sedately	sedately	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	accustomed	accustomed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
29	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	calves	calf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	yearlings	yearling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
42	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crowd out** | past | the horned oxen | oxen *= ox* |  | the road |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme into road=Destination |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the horned oxen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | briskly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **follow** | past | the eyed milk cows | the worn pathway towards oxen's accustomed pasture *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pathway=Theme |
| 5 | **hurry** | past | the calves and yearlings |  |  | the front |  | impatiently *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to front=Destination |

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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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