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title: The autumn sun beamed hot upon his head, and the fresh sea breeze fa… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The autumn sun beamed hot upon his head, and the fresh sea breeze fanned his face and played in his yellow hair. Who acts: autumn sun, fresh sea breeze. 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 cla
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 61

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The autumn sun beamed hot upon his head, and the fresh sea breeze fanned his face and played in his yellow hair.

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**Who acts:** autumn sun, fresh sea breeze · **What happens:** beam, fan, play · **To what, where:** head, face, yellow hair

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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 (autumn sun, fresh sea breeze), 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:pg66819:29:61
# text = The autumn sun beamed hot upon his head, and the fresh sea breeze fanned his face and played in his yellow hair.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beamed	beam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fanned	fan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beam** | past | the autumn sun |  |  | sun's head |  | hot *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon head=Location |
| 2 | **fan** | past | the fresh sea breeze | sun's face |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | past | the fresh sea breeze *not said here* |  |  | sun's yellow hair |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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