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title: Thus were the famishing people fed and made glad, prosperity smiled… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus were the famishing people fed and made glad, prosperity smiled upon all, and the Land of Heroes again became the land of plenty and of peace. Who acts: prosperity, Land. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency tree a
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 113

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Thus were the famishing people fed and made glad, prosperity smiled upon all, and the Land of Heroes again became the land of plenty and of peace.

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**Who acts:** prosperity, Land · **What happens:** famish, be, feed, make, smile, become · **To what, where:** famishing people, land

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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 (prosperity, Land), 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:pg66819:38:113
# text = Thus were the famishing people fed and made glad, prosperity smiled upon all, and the Land of Heroes again became the land of plenty and of peace.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	famishing	famish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
6	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **famish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the famishing people |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **feed** | participle |  | the famishing people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **smile** | past | prosperity |  |  |  |  | upon all | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **become** | past | the Land of Heroes | the land of plenty and peace |  |  | again |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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