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title: With much labor they caught these beasts and bridled them, and upon… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With much labor they caught these beasts and bridled them, and upon their backs they threw rough blankets to serve in place of saddles. Who acts: steeds. 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
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 34

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With much labor they caught these beasts and bridled them, and upon their backs they threw rough blankets to serve in place of saddles.

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**Who acts:** steeds · **What happens:** catch, bridle, throw, serve · **To what, where:** beasts, steeds, rough blankets, backs

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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 (steeds), 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:pg66819:33:34
# text = With much labor they caught these beasts and bridled them, and upon their backs they threw rough blankets to serve in place of saddles.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bridled	bridle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	saddles	saddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | steeds *= steed* | this beasts |  |  |  | with much labor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme |
| 2 | **bridle** | past | steeds *= steed* *not said here* | steeds *= steed* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
| 3 | **throw** | past | steeds *= steed* | rough blankets |  | steeds's backs |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme upon back=Destination |
| 4 | **serve** | to-infinitive | steeds *= steed* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in place of saddles | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in place=Attribute |

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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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