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title: The road between the gardens was filled with half-grown boys, chatte… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The road between the gardens was filled with half-grown boys, chattering little girls, shouting young men, singing maidens, hard-working women from the farms, and old men from the fishing boats; and all were using their voices vigorously, excitedly, as though some wonderful thing was happening. Who 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 26

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The road between the gardens was filled with half-grown boys, chattering little girls, shouting young men, singing maidens, hard-working women from the farms, and old men from the fishing boats; and all were using their voices vigorously, excitedly, as though some wonderful thing was happening.

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**Who acts:** maidens, wonderful thing · **What happens:** fill, grow, chatter, shout, sing, work · **To what, where:** road, little girls, young men, maidens, women, farms

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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 (maidens, wonderful thing), 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:pg66819:35:26
# text = The road between the gardens was filled with half-grown boys, chattering little girls, shouting young men, singing maidens, hard-working women from the farms, and old men from the fishing boats; and all were using their voices vigorously, excitedly, as though some wonderful thing was happening.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	chattering	chatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
23	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
28	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	advmod	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
47	vigorously	vigorously	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	excitedly	excitedly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
51	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
52	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	55	det	_	_
54	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
56	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the road between the gardens |  |  |  | with grown boys; old men from the fishing boats *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with boy=Instrument |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | half *compound* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **chatter** | gerund |  | little girls |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  | young men |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  | maidens |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme |
| 6 | **work** | gerund | maidens *not said here* | women |  | the farms |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent woman=Material |
| 7 | **use** | past · progressive |  | men's voices |  |  |  | excitedly, vigorously *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
| 8 | **happen** | past · progressive | some wonderful thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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