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title: Then he packed beneath the seat a store of food for the long journey… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he packed beneath the seat a store of food for the long journey—eight large jars of bread and deer meat, yes, nine great jars of toothsome victuals. Who acts: Graybeard. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 10

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Then he packed beneath the seat a store of food for the long journey—eight large jars of bread and deer meat, yes, nine great jars of toothsome victuals.

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**Who acts:** Graybeard · **What happens:** pack · **To what, where:** store, seat

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graybeard), 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:pg66819:6:10
# text = Then he packed beneath the seat a store of food for the long journey—eight large jars of bread and deer meat, yes, nine great jars of toothsome victuals.
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	packed	pack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	compound	_	_
23	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	toothsome	toothsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	victuals	victual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pack** | past | Graybeard | a store of food |  | the seat | then | for the long journey and eight large jars of bread and deer meat; nine great jars of toothsome victuals *obl* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent store=Theme beneath seat=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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