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title: Like a withered leaf of autumn the ship was driven hither and thithe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Like a withered leaf of autumn the ship was driven hither and thither through the mists and fearful darkness. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 128

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Like a withered leaf of autumn the ship was driven hither and thither through the mists and fearful darkness.

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**What happens:** wither, drive · **To what, where:** ship, mists

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:36:128
# text = Like a withered leaf of autumn the ship was driven hither and thither through the mists and fearful darkness.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mists	mist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wither** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **drive** | past · passive |  | the ship |  | the mists and fearful darkness; thither |  | like a withered leaf of autumn; hither *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme through mist=Trajectory |

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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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