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title: Weak and weary, he turned boldly into the lowest pathway and drove h… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Weak and weary, he turned boldly into the lowest pathway and drove his steed up to the little homestead. Who acts: pain. 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 5

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Weak and weary, he turned boldly into the lowest pathway and drove his steed up to the little homestead.

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**Who acts:** pain · **What happens:** turn, drive up · **To what, where:** lowest pathway, steed, little homestead

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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 (pain), 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:pg66819:4:5
# text = Weak and weary, he turned boldly into the lowest pathway and drove his steed up to the little homestead.
1	Weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	homestead	homestead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | pain |  |  | the lowest pathway |  | boldly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into pathway=Trajectory |
| 2 | **drive up** | past | pain *not said here* | pain's steed |  | the little homestead |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent steed=Theme to homestead=Trajectory |

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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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