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description: And thereupon he picked up a golden hair which the maiden had let fall, and with a blunted knife he split it into halves and quarters. Who acts: hero. 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 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 55

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And thereupon he picked up a golden hair which the maiden had let fall, and with a blunted knife he split it into halves and quarters.

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**Who acts:** hero · **What happens:** pick up, let, blunt, split · **To what, where:** golden hair, maiden, hair, halves

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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 (hero), 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:pg66819:3:55
# text = And thereupon he picked up a golden hair which the maiden had let fall, and with a blunted knife he split it into halves and quarters.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	blunted	blunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | hero | a golden hair |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | past · perfect · passive |  | the maiden |  |  |  | a golden hair *obj*; fall *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **blunt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **split** | past | hero | hair |  |  |  | into halves and quarters *result*; with a blunted knife | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with knife=Instrument into half=Result |

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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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