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title: He shouldered his golden axe and trudged onward, deeper and deeper i… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He shouldered his golden axe and trudged onward, deeper and deeper into the forest. Who acts: keel. 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 71

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He shouldered his golden axe and trudged onward, deeper and deeper into the forest.

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**Who acts:** keel · **What happens:** shoulder, trudge · **To what, where:** golden axe

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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 (keel), 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:pg66819:13:71
# text = He shouldered his golden axe and trudged onward, deeper and deeper into the forest.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	trudged	trudge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
8	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoulder** | past | keel | keel's golden axe |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 2 | **trudge** | participle | keel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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