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title: Ilmarinen groaned and pulled his cap still lower over his eyebrows;… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Ilmarinen groaned and pulled his cap still lower over his eyebrows; but he answered not a word. Who acts: Ilmarinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 59

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Ilmarinen groaned and pulled his cap still lower over his eyebrows; but he answered not a word.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** groan, pull, not answer · **To what, where:** cap, word

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:12:59
# text = Ilmarinen groaned and pulled his cap still lower over his eyebrows; but he answered not a word.
1	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	groaned	groan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lower	low	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **groan** | past | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pull** | past | Ilmarinen *not said here* | Ilmarinen's cap |  |  | still | low *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ilmarinen | a word |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |

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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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