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title: Bring them home and drive the milkers into the paddock; then call lo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Bring them home and drive the milkers into the paddock; then call loudly, and I will come down with the milkmaids to milk them. Who acts: you, I. 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 56

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Bring them home and drive the milkers into the paddock; then call loudly, and I will come down with the milkmaids to milk them.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** bring, drive, call, come down · **To what, where:** oxen, milkers, paddock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, I), 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:pg66819:29:56
# text = Bring them home and drive the milkers into the paddock; then call loudly, and I will come down with the milkmaids to milk them.
1	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	drive	drive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	milkers	milker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	paddock	paddock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	milkmaids	milkmaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | oxen *= ox* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the milkers |  | the paddock |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent milker=Theme into paddock=Trajectory |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | loudly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come down** | future | I |  |  |  |  | with the milkmaids; milk  oxen *advcl*; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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