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title: The flames died suddenly away, and out of the vessel there sprang a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The flames died suddenly away, and out of the vessel there sprang a wonderful image—the image of a beautiful maiden. Who acts: flames. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 18

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The flames died suddenly away, and out of the vessel there sprang a wonderful image—the image of a beautiful maiden.

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**Who acts:** flames · **What happens:** die, spring, image · **To what, where:** wonderful image, vessel, beautiful maiden

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames), 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:pg66819:1:18
# text = The flames died suddenly away, and out of the vessel there sprang a wonderful image—the image of a beautiful maiden.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the flames |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **spring** | past | the flames *not said here* | a wonderful image |  | the vessel; there |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location image=Theme |
| 3 | **image** |  |  | a beautiful maiden |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition 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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