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title: The women jumped up in alarm; but when they saw his pale and weary f… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The women jumped up in alarm; but when they saw his pale and weary face they answered, “Welcome, stranger! Who acts: women, Hail. 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 22

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The women jumped up in alarm; but when they saw his pale and weary face they answered, “Welcome, stranger!

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**Who acts:** women, Hail · **What happens:** jump up, see, answer · **To what, where:** alarm, pale face

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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 (women, Hail), 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:pg66819:4:22
# text = The women jumped up in alarm; but when they saw his pale and weary face they answered, “Welcome, stranger!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Welcome	welcome	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump up** | past | the women |  |  | alarm |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in alarm=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | past | Hail | Minstrel's pale face |  |  |  | stranger *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Hail | Minstrel's pale face *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent face=Eventuality |

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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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