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title: They went from place to place, among the lowly as well as the great,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: They went from place to place, among the lowly as well as the great, singing their songs and playing the kantele, a primitive sort of harp from which they drew entrancing music. Who acts: memory. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 137

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They went from place to place, among the lowly as well as the great, singing their songs and playing the kantele, a primitive sort of harp from which they drew entrancing music.

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**Who acts:** memory · **What happens:** go, sing, play, draw, entrance, sort · **To what, where:** place, songs, kantele, harp, music

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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 (memory), 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:pg66819:38:137
# text = They went from place to place, among the lowly as well as the great, singing their songs and playing the kantele, a primitive sort of harp from which they drew entrancing music.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lowly	lowly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	kantele	kantele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	primitive	primitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	entrancing	entrance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	xcomp	_	_
35	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go** | past | memory |  |  | place |  | to place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from place=Initial\_Location to place=Destination |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | memory *not said here* | memory's songs |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | memory *not said here* | the kantele |  |  |  | a primitive sort of harp *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kantele=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** | past | memory |  |  | harp |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **entrance** | gerund | memory *not said here* | music |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus music=Experiencer |
| 6 | **sing** |  | memory |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **sort** |  |  | harp |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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