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title: They mounted and rode through the woods, the Minstrel going first wi… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: They mounted and rode through the woods, the Minstrel going first with his great sword drawn. Who acts: steeds, Minstrel. 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 clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 35

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They mounted and rode through the woods, the Minstrel going first with his great sword drawn.

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**Who acts:** steeds, Minstrel · **What happens:** mount, ride, go, draw · **To what, where:** woods, great sword

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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, Minstrel), 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:pg66819:33:35
# text = They mounted and rode through the woods, the Minstrel going first with his great sword drawn.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | steeds *= steed* |  |  |  |  | the Minstrel *parataxis* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | past | steeds *= steed* *not said here* |  |  | the woods |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | the Minstrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Minstrel's great sword; first *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with sword=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **draw** | participle |  | Minstrel's great sword *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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