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title: Slowly and thoughtfully, as one well contented with himself, he drov… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Slowly and thoughtfully, as one well contented with himself, he drove onward along the well-known pathway that led towards the village. Who acts: wizard, known pathway. 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 pra
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 56

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Slowly and thoughtfully, as one well contented with himself, he drove onward along the well-known pathway that led towards the village.

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**Who acts:** wizard, known pathway · **What happens:** content, drive, know, lead · **To what, where:** one, known pathway, village

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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 (wizard, known pathway), 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:pg66819:6:56
# text = Slowly and thoughtfully, as one well contented with himself, he drove onward along the well-known pathway that led towards the village.
1	Slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **content** | participle · passive |  | one |  |  |  | with wizard; slowly, well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **drive** | past | wizard |  |  | the known pathway |  | onward *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along pathway=Trajectory |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **lead** | past | the known pathway |  |  | the village |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards village=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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