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title: Meanwhile the slave, Kullervo, was still sitting on his lonely hummo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the slave, Kullervo, was still sitting on his lonely hummock, keeping watch over the cattle and nursing his evil thoughts. Who acts: Kullervo. 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 80

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Meanwhile the slave, Kullervo, was still sitting on his lonely hummock, keeping watch over the cattle and nursing his evil thoughts.

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**Who acts:** Kullervo · **What happens:** sit, keep, nurse, think · **To what, where:** slave, lonely hummock, watch, evil thoughts

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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 (Kullervo), 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:pg66819:29:80
# text = Meanwhile the slave, Kullervo, was still sitting on his lonely hummock, keeping watch over the cattle and nursing his evil thoughts.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Kullervo	Kullervo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hummock	hummock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	nursing	nurse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive |  | the slave |  | Kullervo's lonely hummock | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hummock=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund |  | watch |  |  |  | over the cattle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over cattle=Location |
| 3 | **nurse** | gerund |  | Kullervo's evil thoughts |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **think** |  | Kullervo |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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