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title: He walked slowly up the deserted pathway to the village, looking at… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He walked slowly up the deserted pathway to the village, looking at the barren fields and the fruitless trees, the empty barns and the gloomy houses, the many signs of poverty and distress. Who acts: cattle. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine, with
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 9

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He walked slowly up the deserted pathway to the village, looking at the barren fields and the fruitless trees, the empty barns and the gloomy houses, the many signs of poverty and distress.

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**Who acts:** cattle · **What happens:** walk, desert, look, sign · **To what, where:** many signs, poverty

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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 (cattle), 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:pg66819:32:9
# text = He walked slowly up the deserted pathway to the village, looking at the barren fields and the fruitless trees, the empty barns and the gloomy houses, the many signs of poverty and distress.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	deserted	desert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	barren	barren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fruitless	fruitless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	barns	barn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | cattle |  |  |  |  | up the deserted pathway; to the village *result*; slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to village=Result |
| 2 | **desert** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | cattle *not said here* | the many signs of poverty and distress |  |  |  | at the barren fields and the fruitless trees and the empty barns and the gloomy houses | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at field=Theme |
| 4 | **sign** |  |  | poverty and distress |  |  |  |  | nom sign «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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