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title: The stars of the Great Bear were still visible, twinkling dimly abov… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The stars of the Great Bear were still visible, twinkling dimly above the pine trees. Who acts: stars. 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 4

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The stars of the Great Bear were still visible, twinkling dimly above the pine trees.

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**Who acts:** stars · **What happens:** be, twinkle · **To what, where:** pine trees

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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 (stars), 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:pg66819:6:4
# text = The stars of the Great Bear were still visible, twinkling dimly above the pine trees.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	twinkling	twinkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	dimly	dimly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	above	above	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the stars of the Great Bear |  |  |  | still | visible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **twinkle** | gerund | the stars of the Great Bear *not said here* |  |  | the pine trees |  | dimly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above tree=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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