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title: Across the broad stream he labored; through a thousand narrow holes… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Across the broad stream he labored; through a thousand narrow holes he squeezed and clambered; and, at length, wearied exceedingly, he reached the shore of safety and climbed panting upon the dry, warm, throbbing land of the living. Who acts: Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of t
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 72

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Across the broad stream he labored; through a thousand narrow holes he squeezed and clambered; and, at length, wearied exceedingly, he reached the shore of safety and climbed panting upon the dry, warm, throbbing land of the living.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen · **What happens:** labor, squeeze, clamber, weary, reach, climb · **To what, where:** broad stream, thousand narrow holes, length, shore

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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:pg66819:15:72
# text = Across the broad stream he labored; through a thousand narrow holes he squeezed and clambered; and, at length, wearied exceedingly, he reached the shore of safety and climbed panting upon the dry, warm, throbbing land of the living.
1	Across	across	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	labored	labor	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	clambered	clamber	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	panting	pant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	xcomp	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
37	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	throbbing	throb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	amod	_	_
42	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **labor** | past | Wainamoinen |  |  | the broad stream |  |  | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **squeeze** | past | Wainamoinen |  |  | thousand narrow holes |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through hole=Trajectory |
| 3 | **clamber** | past | Wainamoinen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **weary** | participle |  | length *not said here* |  |  |  | exceedingly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **reach** | past | Wainamoinen | the shore of safety |  |  |  | length *ccomp* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme |
| 6 | **climb** | past | Wainamoinen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pant** | gerund | Wainamoinen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the dry warm throbbing land of the living | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **throb** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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