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title: The youngest showered blue milk in the valleys and by the gray seash… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The youngest showered blue milk in the valleys and by the gray seashore. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 16

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The youngest showered blue milk in the valleys and by the gray seashore.

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**What happens:** shower · **To what, where:** youngest showered blue milk

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:5:16
# text = The youngest showered blue milk in the valleys and by the gray seashore.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
3	showered	shower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shower** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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