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title: He saw the seven stars of the Bear glittering like gold amid the lea… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw the seven stars of the Bear glittering like gold amid the leaves and blossoms. Who acts: Ilmarinen, Bear. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 3

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He saw the seven stars of the Bear glittering like gold amid the leaves and blossoms.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, Bear · **What happens:** see, glitter · **To what, where:** seven stars

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, Bear), 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:pg66819:8:3
# text = He saw the seven stars of the Bear glittering like gold amid the leaves and blossoms.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Ilmarinen | the seven stars of the Bear |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund | the Bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like gold amid | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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