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title: He swam not far, however, for the nets of wire rose up against him—t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He swam not far, however, for the nets of wire rose up against him—the nets of twisted metal which the three-fingered wizard had spread to catch him. Who acts: Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 60

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He swam not far, however, for the nets of wire rose up against him—the nets of twisted metal which the three-fingered wizard had spread to catch him.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen · **What happens:** not swim, rise up, finger, spread, catch · **To what, where:** nets, fingered wizard, Wainamoinen

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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 (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:pg66819:15:60
# text = He swam not far, however, for the nets of wire rose up against him—the nets of twisted metal which the three-fingered wizard had spread to catch him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	fingered	finger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **swim** | past | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rise up** | past | Wainamoinen *not said here* | the nets of twisted metal |  |  |  | for the nets of wire; against Wainamoinen; however *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against he=Location |
| 3 | **finger** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | three *nummod* | tree rules |
| 4 | **spread** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fingered wizard |  |  |  | twisted metal *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive |  | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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