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title: “Far away, I see the lofty headland and the long, white shore of you… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Far away, I see the lofty headland and the long, white shore of your own dear country, O heroes!” he said. Who acts: Eastward. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 34

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“Far away, I see the lofty headland and the long, white shore of your own dear country, O heroes!” he said.

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**Who acts:** Eastward · **What happens:** see, say · **To what, where:** lofty headland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eastward), 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:pg66819:37:34
# text = “Far away, I see the lofty headland and the long, white shore of your own dear country, O heroes!” he said.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	headland	headland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	23	case	_	_
23	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Eastward | the lofty headland and the long white shore of your own dear country |  |  |  | of heroes; far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headland=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Eastward |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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