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title: High in the sky he saw a rainbow, and on it sat the Maid of Beauty,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: High in the sky he saw a rainbow, and on it sat the Maid of Beauty, busily weaving with a golden shuttle. Who acts: High sky, rainbow. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 15

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High in the sky he saw a rainbow, and on it sat the Maid of Beauty, busily weaving with a golden shuttle.

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**Who acts:** High sky, rainbow · **What happens:** see, sit, weave · **To what, where:** rainbow, Maid

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (High sky, rainbow), 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:pg66819:3:15
# text = High in the sky he saw a rainbow, and on it sat the Maid of Beauty, busily weaving with a golden shuttle.
1	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	shuttle	shuttle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the High sky | a rainbow |  |  |  | sky *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rainbow=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sit** | past | rainbow | the Maid of Beauty |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maid=Theme |
| 3 | **weave** | gerund | rainbow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a golden shuttle; busily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «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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