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title: The milkmaids with their white aprons and braided hair vanish like s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The milkmaids with their white aprons and braided hair vanish like snow-flakes in a turbulent flood of waters. Who acts: milkmaids, hair, waters. 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 cla
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 68

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The milkmaids with their white aprons and braided hair vanish like snow-flakes in a turbulent flood of waters.

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**Who acts:** milkmaids, hair, waters · **What happens:** braid, vanish, flood

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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 (milkmaids, hair, waters), 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:pg66819:30:68
# text = The milkmaids with their white aprons and braided hair vanish like snow-flakes in a turbulent flood of waters.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	milkmaids	milkmaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	aprons	apron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	braided	braid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	vanish	vanish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	turbulent	turbulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **braid** | past | the milkmaids with milkmaids's white aprons |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vanish** | present | hair |  |  |  |  | like snow flakes in a turbulent flood of waters | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flood** |  | waters |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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