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title: And having said this, the crossbow began to shoot arrows recklessly… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And having said this, the crossbow began to shoot arrows recklessly about to the great peril of the ten serving-men. Who acts: crossbow. 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 86

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And having said this, the crossbow began to shoot arrows recklessly about to the great peril of the ten serving-men.

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**Who acts:** crossbow · **What happens:** say, begin, shoot, peril · **To what, where:** this, arrows, great peril, ten serving men · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (crossbow), 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:pg66819:10:86
# text = And having said this, the crossbow began to shoot arrows recklessly about to the great peril of the ten serving-men.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	aux	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crossbow	crossbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	recklessly	recklessly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	peril	peril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
21	serving	serving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund · perfect |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the crossbow |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shoot** | to-infinitive | the crossbow *not said here* | arrows |  | the great peril of the ten serving men |  | recklessly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme to peril=Destination |
| 4 | **peril** |  |  | the ten serving men |  |  |  |  | nom peril «state 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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