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title: And on the shores where they were drifted, wonderful trees sprang up… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And on the shores where they were drifted, wonderful trees sprang up, bearing delicious fruits and gorgeous flowers, such as the people of northern climes had never seen nor dreamed about. Who acts: wonderful trees. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 117

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And on the shores where they were drifted, wonderful trees sprang up, bearing delicious fruits and gorgeous flowers, such as the people of northern climes had never seen nor dreamed about.

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**Who acts:** wonderful trees · **What happens:** drift, sprang up, bear, not see, dream · **To what, where:** islands, shores, delicious fruits

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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 (wonderful trees), 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:pg66819:38:117
# text = And on the shores where they were drifted, wonderful trees sprang up, bearing delicious fruits and gorgeous flowers, such as the people of northern climes had never seen nor dreamed about.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	drifted	drift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sprang	sprang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
16	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	climes	clime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	33	cc	_	_
33	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	_
34	about	about	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drift** | past · passive |  | islands *= island* |  | the shores |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on shore=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sprang up** | present | wonderful trees |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | gerund |  | delicious fruits and gorgeous flowers and the people of northern climes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **see** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **dream** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

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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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