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title: They rode along the pathway which each had travelled once before, th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: They rode along the pathway which each had travelled once before, the pathway which followed the windings of the coast; for this they judged was the safest way. Who acts: steeds, pathway. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship, with its dependenc
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 36

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They rode along the pathway which each had travelled once before, the pathway which followed the windings of the coast; for this they judged was the safest way.

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**Who acts:** steeds, pathway · **What happens:** ride, travell, follow, judge, be · **To what, where:** pathway, windings, safest way

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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, pathway), 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:pg66819:33:36
# text = They rode along the pathway which each had travelled once before, the pathway which followed the windings of the coast; for this they judged was the safest way.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	along	along	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	windings	winding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	judged	judge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | steeds *= steed* |  |  | the pathway |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along pathway=Trajectory |
| 2 | **travell** | past · perfect · passive |  | the pathway |  |  |  | the pathway *obl*; before *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | past | the pathway | the windings of the coast |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winding=Theme |
| 4 | **judge** | past | steeds *= steed* |  |  |  |  | for this | vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for this=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the safest way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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