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title: Children and young people and men and women, all lay drowsing. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Children and young people and men and women, all lay drowsing. Who acts: Children. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 116

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Children and young people and men and women, all lay drowsing.

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**Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** lay, drowse

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children), 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:pg66819:35:116
# text = Children and young people and men and women, all lay drowsing.
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	drowsing	drowse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | Children and young people and men and women |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drowse** | gerund | Children and young people and men and women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4 «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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