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title: Here was the forest road which he had often travelled in his youth a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Here was the forest road which he had often travelled in his youth and later manhood. Who acts: forest road. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 25

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Here was the forest road which he had often travelled in his youth and later manhood.

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**Who acts:** forest road · **What happens:** be, travell · **To what, where:** forest road, youth

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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 (forest road), 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:pg66819:6:25
# text = Here was the forest road which he had often travelled in his youth and later manhood.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the forest road |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **travell** | past · perfect · passive |  | the forest road |  | Minstrel's youth and later manhood |  | Minstrel *nsubj*; often *property* | tree rules |

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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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