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title: In their blue gowns and white aprons, their long braided hair fallin… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: In their blue gowns and white aprons, their long braided hair falling far down their backs—how handsome they are! Who acts: long braided hair, Methinks. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 28

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In their blue gowns and white aprons, their long braided hair falling far down their backs—how handsome they are!

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**Who acts:** long braided hair, Methinks · **What happens:** braid, fall, be · **To what, where:** backs, blue gowns

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long braided hair, Methinks), 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:pg66819:30:28
# text = In their blue gowns and white aprons, their long braided hair falling far down their backs—how handsome they are!
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	gowns	gown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	aprons	apron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	braided	braid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
13	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **braid** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | Methinks's long braided hair *not said here* |  |  | Methinks's backs |  | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme down back=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | Methinks *= methink* |  |  |  |  | handsome *property* | tree rules |

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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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