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title: And in the village, instead of wretched huts she saw neat cottages a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And in the village, instead of wretched huts she saw neat cottages and well-filled barns, the homes of contentment and plenty. Who acts: Dame. 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 9

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And in the village, instead of wretched huts she saw neat cottages and well-filled barns, the homes of contentment and plenty.

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**Who acts:** Dame · **What happens:** see, fill · **To what, where:** neat cottages, village

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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), 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:pg66819:35:9
# text = And in the village, instead of wretched huts she saw neat cottages and well-filled barns, the homes of contentment and plenty.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cottages	cottage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	barns	barn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	contentment	contentment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Dame | neat cottages and filled barns and the homes of contentment and plenty |  | the village and wretched huts |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cottage=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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