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title: “Their hides shine as though they had been rubbed down with lynx-ski… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Their hides shine as though they had been rubbed down with lynx-skin brushes and smoothed with lamb’s wool dipped in oil.” Who acts: hides. 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 every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 33

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“Their hides shine as though they had been rubbed down with lynx-skin brushes and smoothed with lamb’s wool dipped in oil.”

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**Who acts:** hides · **What happens:** shine, rub down, smooth, dip · **To what, where:** hides

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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 (hides), 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:pg66819:30:33
# text = “Their hides shine as though they had been rubbed down with lynx-skin brushes and smoothed with lamb’s wool dipped in oil.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	lynx	lynx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	smoothed	smooth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	dipped	dip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** *in a quote* | present | milkers's hides |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rub down** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | hides *= hide* |  |  |  | with skin brushes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with brush=Theme |
| 3 | **smooth** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **dip** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | with lamb's wool; in oil | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in oil=Attribute |

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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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