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title: By his hut on that bleak headland which juts farthest into the great… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: By his hut on that bleak headland which juts farthest into the great icy sea a poor fisherman was sitting. Who acts: bleak headland, poor fisherman. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 107

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By his hut on that bleak headland which juts farthest into the great icy sea a poor fisherman was sitting.

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**Who acts:** bleak headland, poor fisherman · **What happens:** jut, sit · **To what, where:** great icy sea

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bleak headland, poor fisherman), 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:pg66819:33:107
# text = By his hut on that bleak headland which juts farthest into the great icy sea a poor fisherman was sitting.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	bleak	bleak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	headland	headland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	juts	jut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	farthest	far	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jut** | present | that bleak headland |  |  | the great icy sea |  | far *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | a poor fisherman | the great icy sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sea=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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