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title: He looked around him, and, half hidden among the brushwood, he saw t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked around him, and, half hidden among the brushwood, he saw the dwarfish earth man, Sampsa, standing with cap in hand, his small eyes twinkling. Who acts: Pohyola, small eyes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper, with its dependency tr
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 14

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He looked around him, and, half hidden among the brushwood, he saw the dwarfish earth man, Sampsa, standing with cap in hand, his small eyes twinkling.

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**Who acts:** Pohyola, small eyes · **What happens:** look, hide, see, stand, twinkle · **To what, where:** brushwood, dwarfish earth man, small eyes, hand

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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 (Pohyola, small eyes), 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:pg66819:17:14
# text = He looked around him, and, half hidden among the brushwood, he saw the dwarfish earth man, Sampsa, standing with cap in hand, his small eyes twinkling.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	advmod	_	_
9	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	dwarfish	dwarfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Sampsa	Sampsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
32	twinkling	twinkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Pohyola |  |  |  |  | around voice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | participle | Pohyola *not said here* |  |  | the brushwood |  | half *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among brushwood=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | Pohyola | the dwarfish earth man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | Pohyola *not said here* | Pohyola's small eyes |  | hand |  | with cap | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location |
| 5 | **twinkle** | gerund | Pohyola's small eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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