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title: She places her stool by the side of the great brown beast; she takes… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She places her stool by the side of the great brown beast; she takes the new milk-pail in her hands; she sits down; she bends forward to begin the milking. Who acts: Anniki. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance, with its dependency tree and
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 53

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She places her stool by the side of the great brown beast; she takes the new milk-pail in her hands; she sits down; she bends forward to begin the milking.

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**Who acts:** Anniki · **What happens:** take, sit down, bend, begin · **To what, where:** new milk pail, hands, milking, places

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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 (Anniki), 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:pg66819:30:53
# text = She places her stool by the side of the great brown beast; she takes the new milk-pail in her hands; she sits down; she bends forward to begin the milking.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	bends	bend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
31	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	milking	milking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Anniki | the new milk pail |  | Anniki's hands |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pail=Value in hand=Location |
| 2 | **sit down** | present | Anniki |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bend** | present | Anniki |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | to-infinitive | Anniki *not said here* | the milking |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milking=Eventuality |

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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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