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title: From its right-hand corner he took a bit of soft pitch, black and pl… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: From its right-hand corner he took a bit of soft pitch, black and pliable, and from its left-hand corner a piece of tinder no larger than a pea. Who acts: magic. 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 ev
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 73

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From its right-hand corner he took a bit of soft pitch, black and pliable, and from its left-hand corner a piece of tinder no larger than a pea.

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**Who acts:** magic · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** bit, hand corner

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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 (magic), 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:pg66819:37:73
# text = From its right-hand corner he took a bit of soft pitch, black and pliable, and from its left-hand corner a piece of tinder no larger than a pea.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pliable	pliable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
22	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	tinder	tinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	no	no	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	parataxis	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | magic | a bit of soft pitch |  | box's hand corner |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent bit=Theme from corner=Initial\_Location |

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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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