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description: And the tiny, rough-cornered piece, which with her last strength the baffled Mistress had carried with her only finger back to her home land—what became of that? Who acts: home land. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependenc
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 126

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And the tiny, rough-cornered piece, which with her last strength the baffled Mistress had carried with her only finger back to her home land—what became of that?

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**Who acts:** home land · **What happens:** corner, baffle, carry, become · **To what, where:** baffled Mistress, tiny rough cornered piece

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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 (home 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:pg66819:38:126
# text = And the tiny, rough-cornered piece, which with her last strength the baffled Mistress had carried with her only finger back to her home land—what became of that?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	cornered	corner	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	baffled	baffle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	home	home	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	nsubj	_	_
31	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **corner** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **baffle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive |  | the baffled Mistress |  |  |  | with Woman's last strength; with Woman; to Mistress's home land; finger *obl*; the tiny rough cornered piece *obj* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Value |
| 4 | **become** | past | Mistress's home land |  |  |  |  | of Mistress's home land | 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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