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title: There, on the slope of a barren mountain, the road divided into thre… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: There, on the slope of a barren mountain, the road divided into three paths, and at the end of each path he saw a small house with smoke rising from the chimney. Who acts: road, smoke. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son, with its dep
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 3

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There, on the slope of a barren mountain, the road divided into three paths, and at the end of each path he saw a small house with smoke rising from the chimney.

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**Who acts:** road, smoke · **What happens:** divide, see, rise · **To what, where:** slope, small house, end, chimney

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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 (road, smoke), 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:pg66819:4:3
# text = There, on the slope of a barren mountain, the road divided into three paths, and at the end of each path he saw a small house with smoke rising from the chimney.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	slope	slope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	barren	barren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past | the road |  |  | the slope of a barren mountain; there |  | into three paths | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | road | a small house |  |  | at the end of each path | with smoke | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | smoke *not said here* |  |  | the chimney |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from chimney=Initial\_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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