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title: Where once were miry marsh lands she saw green pastures with hundred… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Where once were miry marsh lands she saw green pastures with hundreds of sleek cattle grazing thereon. Who acts: Dame, sleek cattle. 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 7

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Where once were miry marsh lands she saw green pastures with hundreds of sleek cattle grazing thereon.

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**Who acts:** Dame, sleek cattle · **What happens:** be, land, see, graze · **To what, where:** miry marsh, green pastures

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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, sleek cattle), 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:pg66819:35:7
# text = Where once were miry marsh lands she saw green pastures with hundreds of sleek cattle grazing thereon.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	2	advmod	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	miry	miry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	csubj	_	_
6	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pastures	pasture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	sleek	sleek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | miry marsh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **land** | present |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | Dame | green pastures |  |  |  | with hundreds of sleek cattle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pasture=Stimulus |
| 4 | **graze** | gerund | sleek cattle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn dine-39.5 «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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