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title: On the tenth day he looked into the pot and saw that all was of a ri… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On the tenth day he looked into the pot and saw that all was of a rich golden color, bright and sparkling, with pretty rainbows mingled here and there in many a curious pattern. Who acts: youth, all, pretty rainbows. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Gra
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 96

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On the tenth day he looked into the pot and saw that all was of a rich golden color, bright and sparkling, with pretty rainbows mingled here and there in many a curious pattern.

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**Who acts:** youth, all, pretty rainbows · **What happens:** look, see, be, sparkle, mingle · **To what, where:** curious pattern

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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 (youth, all, pretty rainbows), 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:pg66819:4:96
# text = On the tenth day he looked into the pot and saw that all was of a rich golden color, bright and sparkling, with pretty rainbows mingled here and there in many a curious pattern.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	rainbows	rainbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
29	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	nsubj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | youth |  |  |  | day | into the pot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into pot=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | of a rich golden color | tree rules |
| 4 | **sparkle** | gerund | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **mingle** | past | pretty rainbows |  |  | a curious pattern; here; there |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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