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description: And Wainamoinen neither spoke nor made resistance, but, wrapping his cloak about him, he laid himself down to sleep on the dread couch of King Tuoni. Who acts: Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 144

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And Wainamoinen neither spoke nor made resistance, but, wrapping his cloak about him, he laid himself down to sleep on the dread couch of King Tuoni.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen · **What happens:** speak, make, wrap, lay down, sleep · **To what, where:** resistance, cloak, Wainamoinen, dread couch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:14:144
# text = And Wainamoinen neither spoke nor made resistance, but, wrapping his cloak about him, he laid himself down to sleep on the dread couch of King Tuoni.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	wrapping	wrap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	dread	dread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Tuoni	Tuoni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | Wainamoinen *not said here* | resistance |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset resistance=Product |
| 3 | **wrap** | gerund | Wainamoinen *not said here* | Wainamoinen's cloak |  |  |  | about Wainamoinen | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme about he=Destination |
| 4 | **lay down** | past | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result |
| 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen *not said here* |  |  | the dread couch of King Tuoni |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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