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title: He roared on the hill-tops, and shrieked in the tree-tops, and threa… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He roared on the hill-tops, and shrieked in the tree-tops, and threatened to overwhelm everything that stood in his way. Who acts: Wind. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 5

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He roared on the hill-tops, and shrieked in the tree-tops, and threatened to overwhelm everything that stood in his way.

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**Who acts:** Wind · **What happens:** roar, shriek, threaten, overwhelm, stand · **To what, where:** hill tops, tree tops, everything, way

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wind), 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:pg66819:16:5
# text = He roared on the hill-tops, and shrieked in the tree-tops, and threatened to overwhelm everything that stood in his way.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	overwhelm	overwhelm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | past | Wind |  |  | the hill tops |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location |
| 2 | **shriek** | past | Wind *not said here* |  |  | the tree tops |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in top=Location |
| 3 | **threaten** | participle | Wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **overwhelm** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Wind *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everything=Experiencer |
| 5 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | Wind's way |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |

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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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