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title: Drive the oxen and the yearlings to the woodlands; let them browse a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Drive the oxen and the yearlings to the woodlands; let them browse among the bushes and lie down in shady places. Who acts: you, oxen. 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 52

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Drive the oxen and the yearlings to the woodlands; let them browse among the bushes and lie down in shady places.

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**Who acts:** you, oxen · **What happens:** drive, let, browse, lie down · **To what, where:** oxen, shady places

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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, oxen), 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:pg66819:29:52
# text = Drive the oxen and the yearlings to the woodlands; let them browse among the bushes and lie down in shady places.
1	Drive	drive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	yearlings	yearling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	browse	browse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	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 oxen and the yearlings to the woodlands |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme ox=Trajectory |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | oxen *= ox* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **browse** | infinitive | oxen *= ox* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the bushes | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie down** | infinitive |  |  |  | shady places |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |

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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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