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title: Then, instantly, and without sound, ten thousand shades who had been… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, instantly, and without sound, ten thousand shades who had been waiting unseen and intangible on the shore, glided also into the boat and stood beside him. Who acts: thousand shades. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela, with its depend
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 118

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Then, instantly, and without sound, ten thousand shades who had been waiting unseen and intangible on the shore, glided also into the boat and stood beside him.

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**Who acts:** thousand shades · **What happens:** wait, glide, stand · **To what, where:** shore, boat

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousand shades), 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:pg66819:14:118
# text = Then, instantly, and without sound, ten thousand shades who had been waiting unseen and intangible on the shore, glided also into the boat and stood beside him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	shades	shade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux	_	_
15	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	intangible	intangible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
23	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past · perfect · progressive | thousand shades |  |  | the shore |  | unseen *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
| 2 | **glide** | past |  | the boat |  |  | then | without sound; instantly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  |  |  |  |  | beside Minstrel | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=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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