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title: As the Minstrel journeyed onward the road gradually became broader a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: As the Minstrel journeyed onward the road gradually became broader and there were more signs of travel. Who acts: Minstrel, road, more signs. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 1

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As the Minstrel journeyed onward the road gradually became broader and there were more signs of travel.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel, road, more signs · **What happens:** journey, become, be, sign · **To what, where:** travel

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, road, more signs), 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:pg66819:7:1
# text = As the Minstrel journeyed onward the road gradually became broader and there were more signs of travel.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	broader	broad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | the Minstrel |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | the road |  |  |  |  | broad, gradually *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **be** | past | more signs of travel |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sign** |  |  | travel |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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