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title: At length, when not another vestige could be found, the Minstrel wit… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, when not another vestige could be found, the Minstrel with tired limbs went up to the misty summit of the headland, carrying the fragments with him. Who acts: Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency t
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 105

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At length, when not another vestige could be found, the Minstrel with tired limbs went up to the misty summit of the headland, carrying the fragments with him.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel · **What happens:** find, go up, carry · **To what, where:** vestige, length, fragments

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel), 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:pg66819:38:105
# text = At length, when not another vestige could be found, the Minstrel with tired limbs went up to the misty summit of the headland, carrying the fragments with him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	vestige	vestige	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	headland	headland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | could · passive |  | another vestige |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **go up** | past | the Minstrel |  |  | length |  | to the misty summit of the headland; tired limbs *nsubj* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | the Minstrel *not said here* | the fragments |  |  |  | with treasure | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragment=Theme |

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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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