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title: Then he wandered hither and thither among the rocks, seeking all kin… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he wandered hither and thither among the rocks, seeking all kinds of healing herbs and putting them in his basket. Who acts: 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 clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 87

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Then he wandered hither and thither among the rocks, seeking all kinds of healing herbs and putting them in his basket.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** wander, seek, put · **To what, where:** rocks, kinds, basket

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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 (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:pg66819:4:87
# text = Then he wandered hither and thither among the rocks, seeking all kinds of healing herbs and putting them in his basket.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | man |  |  | the rocks; thither | then | hither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among rock=Trajectory |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | man *not said here* | all kinds of healing herbs |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | gerund | man *not said here* | kinds *= kind* |  | man's basket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in basket=Destination |

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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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