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title: Threads of silver, threads of gold, threads of every brilliant color… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Threads of silver, threads of gold, threads of every brilliant color were mingled in that web of magic. 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 17

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Threads of silver, threads of gold, threads of every brilliant color were mingled in that web of magic.

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**What happens:** mingle · **To what, where:** Threads, web

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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: 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:pg66819:3:17
# text = Threads of silver, threads of gold, threads of every brilliant color were mingled in that web of magic.
1	Threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mingle** | past · passive |  | Threads of silver and threads of gold and threads of every brilliant color |  | that web of magic |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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