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title: He saw all the other fragments of the Sampo and its pictured cover,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw all the other fragments of the Sampo and its pictured cover, and he watched each one as it was carried east, west, or south and left upon some strange, unheard-of shore. Who acts: vision. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with i
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 115

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He saw all the other fragments of the Sampo and its pictured cover, and he watched each one as it was carried east, west, or south and left upon some strange, unheard-of shore.

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**Who acts:** vision · **What happens:** see, picture, watch, carry, leave · **To what, where:** other fragments, one, cover, strange

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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 (vision), 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:pg66819:38:115
# text = He saw all the other fragments of the Sampo and its pictured cover, and he watched each one as it was carried east, west, or south and left upon some strange, unheard-of shore.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	pictured	picture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
24	east	east	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	west	west	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	south	south	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	unheard	unheard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | vision | all other fragments of the Sampo and Sampo's pictured cover |  |  |  | south *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fragment=Stimulus |
| 2 | **picture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **watch** | past | vision | each one |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | past · passive |  | cover |  |  |  | east, west *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | participle | vision *not said here* |  |  | some strange |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent upon strange=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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