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title: Then taking the pieces reverently in his hands, he planted them one… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then taking the pieces reverently in his hands, he planted them one by one in the ground, covering them deep in the rich soil of Wainola’s headland. 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
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 110

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Then taking the pieces reverently in his hands, he planted them one by one in the ground, covering them deep in the rich soil of Wainola’s headland.

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**Who acts:** treasure · **What happens:** take, plant, cover, soil · **To what, where:** pieces, root, headland

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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:pg66819:38:110
# text = Then taking the pieces reverently in his hands, he planted them one by one in the ground, covering them deep in the rich soil of Wainola’s headland.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	reverently	reverently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	Wainola	Wainola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	headland	headland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | treasure *not said here* | the pieces |  |  | then | reverently *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 2 | **plant** | past | treasure | root |  |  |  | one *obj* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme one=Destination |
| 3 | **cover** | gerund | treasure *not said here* | root |  |  |  | in the rich soil of Wainola's headland; deep *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination in soil=Theme |
| 4 | **soil** |  |  | Wainola's headland |  |  |  |  | nom soil «state transitive»: of=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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