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title: “In war, men; in peace, singing birds and timid deer. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “In war, men; in peace, singing birds and timid deer. Who acts: peace. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 84

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“In war, men; in peace, singing birds and timid deer.

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**Who acts:** peace · **What happens:** sing · **To what, where:** birds, men

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peace), 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:pg66819:10:84
# text = “In war, men; in peace, singing birds and timid deer.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | peace *not said here* | birds and timid deer |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=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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