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title: His farmyard was full of lowing cattle, broad-horned milk cows, fat… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: His farmyard was full of lowing cattle, broad-horned milk cows, fat beeves, and sleek-coated yearlings. Who acts: farmyard. 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 6

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His farmyard was full of lowing cattle, broad-horned milk cows, fat beeves, and sleek-coated yearlings.

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**Who acts:** farmyard · **What happens:** be, low, coat

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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 (farmyard), 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:pg66819:29:6
# text = His farmyard was full of lowing cattle, broad-horned milk cows, fat beeves, and sleek-coated yearlings.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	lowing	low	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	horned	horned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	beeves	beef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	sleek	sleek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	coated	coat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	yearlings	yearling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Beauty's farmyard |  |  |  |  | of lowing cattle and broad horned milk cows and fat beeves; coated yearlings *conj*; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **low** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **coat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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