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title: Drive the milkers to the high meadows where the grass is green and s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Drive the milkers to the high meadows where the grass is green and sweet. Who acts: you, grass. 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 every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 51

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Drive the milkers to the high meadows where the grass is green and sweet.

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**Who acts:** you, grass · **What happens:** drive, be · **To what, where:** milkers, high meadows

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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 (you, grass), 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:pg66819:29:51
# text = Drive the milkers to the high meadows where the grass is green and sweet.
1	Drive	drive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	milkers	milker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | imperative | you *not said here* | the milkers |  | the high meadows |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent milker=Theme to meadow=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | the grass |  |  |  |  | green *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the grass *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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