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title: There below him he saw the fields and the meadows and the old famili… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: There below him he saw the fields and the meadows and the old familiar places where he and his mate had oftentimes nested and reared their young. Who acts: chin. 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 eve
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 93

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There below him he saw the fields and the meadows and the old familiar places where he and his mate had oftentimes nested and reared their young.

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**Who acts:** chin · **What happens:** see, nest, rear · **To what, where:** fields, meadows, young

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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: who acts (chin), 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:pg66819:36:93
# text = There below him he saw the fields and the meadows and the old familiar places where he and his mate had oftentimes nested and reared their young.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
2	below	below	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	oftentimes	oftentime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	nested	nest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	reared	rear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | chin | the fields |  | there |  | below chin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus |
| 2 | **nest** | past · perfect · passive |  | the meadows |  |  |  | the old familiar places *nsubj* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Location |
| 3 | **rear** | past | chin *not said here* | meadows's young |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=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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