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title: On the fourth day, he ran for leagues upon the sharpened points of n… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On the fourth day, he ran for leagues upon the sharpened points of needles; but his shoes of iron protected him. Who acts: planter, shoes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 68

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On the fourth day, he ran for leagues upon the sharpened points of needles; but his shoes of iron protected him.

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**Who acts:** planter, shoes · **What happens:** run, sharpen, protect, point · **To what, where:** planter, needles

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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 (planter, shoes), 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:pg66819:17:68
# text = On the fourth day, he ran for leagues upon the sharpened points of needles; but his shoes of iron protected him.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sharpened	sharpen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	protected	protect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | planter |  |  |  | day | for leagues upon the sharpened points of needles | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for league=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **sharpen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **protect** | past | planter's shoes of iron |  | planter |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | needles |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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