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title: Through fens and woodlands, across the meadows and the moorlands, th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Through fens and woodlands, across the meadows and the moorlands, the red reindeer rushed unwearied, never pausing to rest, never thinking of food. Who acts: red reindeer. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 19

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Through fens and woodlands, across the meadows and the moorlands, the red reindeer rushed unwearied, never pausing to rest, never thinking of food.

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**Who acts:** red reindeer · **What happens:** rush, not pause, rest, not think · **To what, where:** fens

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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 (red reindeer), 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:pg66819:6:19
# text = Through fens and woodlands, across the meadows and the moorlands, the red reindeer rushed unwearied, never pausing to rest, never thinking of food.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fens	fen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moorlands	moorland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	unwearied	unwearied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	pausing	pause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | the red reindeer |  |  | fens and woodlands and the meadows and the moorlands |  | unwearied *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fen=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **pause** | gerund | the red reindeer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | the red reindeer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the red reindeer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of food | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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