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title: She was pleased because where once were naught but vast brown meadow… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She was pleased because where once were naught but vast brown meadows she now saw fields of ripening grain. Who acts: Dame, fields. 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 6

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She was pleased because where once were naught but vast brown meadows she now saw fields of ripening grain.

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**Who acts:** Dame, fields · **What happens:** be, see, ripen · **To what, where:** naught, fields, grain

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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 (Dame, fields), 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:pg66819:35:6
# text = She was pleased because where once were naught but vast brown meadows she now saw fields of ripening grain.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	3	ccomp	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	ripening	ripen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Dame |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Dame *not said here* | naught |  |  |  | vast brown meadows *conj*; once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | Dame | fields |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus |
| 4 | **ripen** | gerund | fields *not said here* | grain |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grain=Patient |

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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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