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title: At length he ceased his bloody work, he laid his weapons down, grief… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: At length he ceased his bloody work, he laid his weapons down, grief overcame him, and sorrow for the destruction he had wrought. Who acts: task, grief. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 143

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At length he ceased his bloody work, he laid his weapons down, grief overcame him, and sorrow for the destruction he had wrought.

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**Who acts:** task, grief · **What happens:** cease, lay down, overcome, wrought, work · **To what, where:** bloody work, weapons, length, task, destruction

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task, grief), 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:pg66819:13:143
# text = At length he ceased his bloody work, he laid his weapons down, grief overcame him, and sorrow for the destruction he had wrought.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	overcame	overcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past | task | task's bloody work |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lay down** | past | task | task's weapons |  | length |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme at length=Destination |
| 3 | **overcome** | past | grief | task |  |  |  | sorrow for the destruction *obl* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 4 | **wrought** | past · perfect | task | the destruction *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** |  | task |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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