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title: Down to the river-side she went, nor did she pause or slacken her sp… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Down to the river-side she went, nor did she pause or slacken her speed until she came to a sudden turn in the shore where a huge ledge of rock jutted far out into the stream. Who acts: Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock, with it
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 3

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Down to the river-side she went, nor did she pause or slacken her speed until she came to a sudden turn in the shore where a huge ledge of rock jutted far out into the stream.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel · **What happens:** go, pause, slacken, come, jut · **To what, where:** river side, speed, sudden turn, huge ledge, stream

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel), 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:pg66819:15:3
# text = Down to the river-side she went, nor did she pause or slacken her speed until she came to a sudden turn in the shore where a huge ledge of rock jutted far out into the stream.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pause	pause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	slacken	slacken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	jutted	jut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
35	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
36	out	out	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Minstrel |  |  | the river side |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pause** | past · do-support | Minstrel |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **slacken** | infinitive | Minstrel *not said here* | Minstrel's speed |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent speed=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | Minstrel |  |  | a sudden turn in the shore |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to turn=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **jut** | participle · passive |  | a huge ledge of rock |  | the stream |  | out *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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