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title: On the sixth day he dodged one way then another to escape the cruel… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On the sixth day he dodged one way then another to escape the cruel points of spears and the gleaming blades of battle-axes. Who acts: planter. 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 70

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On the sixth day he dodged one way then another to escape the cruel points of spears and the gleaming blades of battle-axes.

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**Who acts:** planter · **What happens:** dodge, escape, gleam, point · **To what, where:** one way, cruel points, spears

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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), 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:pg66819:17:70
# text = On the sixth day he dodged one way then another to escape the cruel points of spears and the gleaming blades of battle-axes.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dodged	dodge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	axes	ax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dodge** | past | planter | one way |  |  | day |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent way=Location |
| 2 | **escape** | to-infinitive | planter *not said here* | the cruel points of spears and the gleaming blades of battle axes |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme point=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | spears |  |  |  |  | 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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