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title: Sister Anniki turns to flee through the open gateway. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Sister Anniki turns to flee through the open gateway. Who acts: Sister. 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 57

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Sister Anniki turns to flee through the open gateway.

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**Who acts:** Sister · **What happens:** turn, flee · **To what, where:** open gateway

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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 (Sister), 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:pg66819:30:57
# text = Sister Anniki turns to flee through the open gateway.
1	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Anniki	Anniki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gateway	gateway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Sister |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flee** | to-infinitive | Sister *not said here* |  |  | the open gateway |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through gateway=Initial\_Location |

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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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