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title: Swiftly as a red deer when chased by wolves, swiftly as a sparrow on… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Swiftly as a red deer when chased by wolves, swiftly as a sparrow on the wing, he glided over hills and marsh lands till at last he came again to Wainola and the smithy of Ilmarinen. Who acts: Rest, marsh lands. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom K
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 109

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Swiftly as a red deer when chased by wolves, swiftly as a sparrow on the wing, he glided over hills and marsh lands till at last he came again to Wainola and the smithy of Ilmarinen.

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**Who acts:** Rest, marsh lands · **What happens:** chase, glide, till, come · **To what, where:** hills, last, Wainola

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rest, marsh lands), 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:pg66819:17:109
# text = Swiftly as a red deer when chased by wolves, swiftly as a sparrow on the wing, he glided over hills and marsh lands till at last he came again to Wainola and the smithy of Ilmarinen.
1	Swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	till	till	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Wainola	Wainola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **chase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by wolves; as a sparrow on the wing; swiftly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by wolf=Trajectory |
| 2 | **glide** | past | Rest |  |  | hills |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory |
| 3 | **till** | present | marsh lands |  |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | Rest |  |  | Wainola and the smithy of Ilmarinen | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wainola=Initial\_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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