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title: The sun was not yet up, but a tinge of yellow in the eastern sky for… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun was not yet up, but a tinge of yellow in the eastern sky foretold the coming of brilliant day. Who acts: tinge. 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 3

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The sun was not yet up, but a tinge of yellow in the eastern sky foretold the coming of brilliant day.

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**Who acts:** tinge · **What happens:** not yet up, foretell, come · **To what, where:** sun

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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 (tinge), 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:pg66819:6:3
# text = The sun was not yet up, but a tinge of yellow in the eastern sky foretold the coming of brilliant day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	yet	yet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tinge	tinge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	foretold	foretell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **yet up** | past · passive |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **foretell** | participle | a tinge of yellow in the eastern sky |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | a tinge of yellow in the eastern sky *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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