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title: The young man gathered many handfuls of slender twigs from the tree,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man gathered many handfuls of slender twigs from the tree, and saw that on each twig was a tiny drop of dew. Who acts: young man. 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 clau
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 86

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The young man gathered many handfuls of slender twigs from the tree, and saw that on each twig was a tiny drop of dew.

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**Who acts:** young man · **What happens:** gather, see, be · **To what, where:** many handfuls, tiny drop, twig

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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 (young man), 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:pg66819:4:86
# text = The young man gathered many handfuls of slender twigs from the tree, and saw that on each twig was a tiny drop of dew.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	handfuls	handful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | the young man | many handfuls of slender twigs from the tree |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the young man *not said here* | a tiny drop |  | each twig |  | of dew | tree rules |

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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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