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title: The farmhouse itself had been ransacked from kitchen to attic chambe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The farmhouse itself had been ransacked from kitchen to attic chamber, and not one article of ornament or use had been left untouched or unbroken. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 45

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The farmhouse itself had been ransacked from kitchen to attic chamber, and not one article of ornament or use had been left untouched or unbroken.

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**What happens:** ransack, leave, article · **To what, where:** farmhouse, kitchen, one article, ornament

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:31:45
# text = The farmhouse itself had been ransacked from kitchen to attic chamber, and not one article of ornament or use had been left untouched or unbroken.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	ransacked	ransack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	attic	attic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
24	untouched	untouched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	unbroken	unbroken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ransack** | past · perfect · passive |  | the farmhouse  farmhouse |  | kitchen |  | to attic chamber | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location |
| 2 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | one article of ornament or use |  |  |  | untouched *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **article** |  |  | ornament |  |  |  |  | nom article «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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