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title: With a golden axe upon his shoulder Sampsa sauntered, singing, throu… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With a golden axe upon his shoulder Sampsa sauntered, singing, through the forest. Who acts: Sampsa. 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 every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 55

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With a golden axe upon his shoulder Sampsa sauntered, singing, through the forest.

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**Who acts:** Sampsa · **What happens:** saunter, sing · **To what, where:** forest

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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 (Sampsa), 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:pg66819:13:55
# text = With a golden axe upon his shoulder Sampsa sauntered, singing, through the forest.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	Sampsa	Sampsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sauntered	saunter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **saunter** | past | Sampsa |  |  |  |  | with a golden axe upon dwarf's shoulder | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Sampsa *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Location |

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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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