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title: And on the morrow, where the red milk had been sprinkled, red and br… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And on the morrow, where the red milk had been sprinkled, red and brittle ore of iron flecked the ground; where the white milk had been scattered, powdery ore of a yellow hue abounded; and where the blue milk had been showered, flaky masses of crude iron, tough and dark, lay hidden beneath the soil.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 17

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And on the morrow, where the red milk had been sprinkled, red and brittle ore of iron flecked the ground; where the white milk had been scattered, powdery ore of a yellow hue abounded; and where the blue milk had been showered, flaky masses of crude iron, tough and dark, lay hidden beneath the soil.

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**What happens:** sprinkle, fleck, scatter, abound, shower, lay · **To what, where:** red milk, ground, morrow, white milk, yellow hue, 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:pg66819:5:17
# text = And on the morrow, where the red milk had been sprinkled, red and brittle ore of iron flecked the ground; where the white milk had been scattered, powdery ore of a yellow hue abounded; and where the blue milk had been showered, flaky masses of crude iron, tough and dark, lay hidden beneath the soil.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	brittle	brittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	ore	ore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	flecked	fleck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	powdery	powdery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	ore	ore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	abounded	abound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
41	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	47	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	showered	shower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	flaky	flaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	crude	crude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	conj	_	_
60	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	xcomp	_	_
61	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprinkle** | past · perfect · passive |  | the red milk |  |  |  | red ore of iron *conj* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **fleck** | past |  | the ground |  | the morrow |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Destination |
| 3 | **scatter** | past · perfect · passive |  | the white milk |  |  |  | powdery ore of a yellow hue *obl* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **abound** | participle |  | a yellow hue *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shower** | past · perfect · passive |  | the blue milk |  |  |  | flaky masses of crude iron *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **lay** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  | the soil |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath soil=Location |

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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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