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title: He stood alone upon the lofty shore, gazing far out over the illimit… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He stood alone upon the lofty shore, gazing far out over the illimitable sea. Who acts: treasure. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 107

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He stood alone upon the lofty shore, gazing far out over the illimitable sea.

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**Who acts:** treasure · **What happens:** stand, gaze · **To what, where:** lofty shore

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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 (treasure), 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:pg66819:38:107
# text = He stood alone upon the lofty shore, gazing far out over the illimitable sea.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	illimitable	illimitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | treasure |  |  | the lofty shore |  | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shore=Location |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | treasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over the illimitable sea; out *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over sea=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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