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title: He lifted the cap which had concealed his forehead, he loosed the br… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He lifted the cap which had concealed his forehead, he loosed the broad scarf that had been well drawn up about his chin and cheeks. Who acts: Wainola. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 19

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He lifted the cap which had concealed his forehead, he loosed the broad scarf that had been well drawn up about his chin and cheeks.

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**Who acts:** Wainola · **What happens:** lift, conceal, loose, draw up · **To what, where:** cap, broad scarf

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainola), 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:pg66819:32:19
# text = He lifted the cap which had concealed his forehead, he loosed the broad scarf that had been well drawn up about his chin and cheeks.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	loosed	loose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | Wainola | the cap |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme |
| 2 | **conceal** | past · perfect · passive |  | the cap |  |  |  | Wainola's forehead *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **loose** | past | Wainola | the broad scarf |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent scarf=Patient |
| 4 | **draw up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the broad scarf |  |  |  | about Wainola's chin and cheeks; well *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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