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title: Its two halves gaped wide apart; its torn and broken branches hung d… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Its two halves gaped wide apart; its torn and broken branches hung dangling in the wind. Who acts: two halves. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 102

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Its two halves gaped wide apart; its torn and broken branches hung dangling in the wind.

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**Who acts:** two halves · **What happens:** gape, tear, break, hang, dangle · **To what, where:** torn branches, wind

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two halves), 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:pg66819:4:102
# text = Its two halves gaped wide apart; its torn and broken branches hung dangling in the wind.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gaped	gape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	dangling	dangle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gape** | participle | crown's two halves |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hang** | participle · passive |  | crown's torn branches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dangle** | gerund |  |  |  | the wind |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=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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