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title: So the wizard, with his hard and crooked fingers, stretched them, on… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 33

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So the wizard, with his hard and crooked fingers, stretched them, one by one, across the river; he stretched them, this way and that, along the sullen stream; he stretched them all around the gray-peaked island, the kingdom of Tuoni.

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**Who acts:** wizard · **What happens:** stretch, peak · **To what, where:** nets, river, peaked island

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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 (wizard), 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:pg66819:15:33
# text = So the wizard, with his hard and crooked fingers, stretched them, one by one, across the river; he stretched them, this way and that, along the sullen stream; he stretched them all around the gray-peaked island, the kingdom of Tuoni.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	across	across	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	along	along	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	sullen	sullen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	all	all	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
41	around	around	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
43	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	peaked	peak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Tuoni	Tuoni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **stretch** | past | the wizard and wizard's hard fingers | nets *= net* |  | the river |  | one by one *obl* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **stretch** | past | wizard | nets *= net* |  |  |  | along the sullen stream; this way  that *obl* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **stretch** | past | wizard | nets *= net* |  | the peaked island and the kingdom of Tuoni |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **peak** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | gray *compound* | tree rules |

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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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