--- title: And lo! on the seventh day, he came suddenly upon the great giant hi… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: And lo! on the seventh day, he came suddenly upon the great giant himself, lying prone upon the earth amid the vast, eternal solitudes—lying prone upon the earth and gazing upward into the solemn sky and the unmeasured depths of infinity. Who acts: planter, vast eternal solitudes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (planter, vast eternal solitudes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:17:71 # text = And lo! on the seventh day, he came suddenly upon the great giant himself, lying prone upon the earth amid the vast, eternal solitudes—lying prone upon the earth and gazing upward into the solemn sky and the unmeasured depths of infinity. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 lo lo INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 seventh seventh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 upon upon ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 15 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 19 prone prone NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 amid amid NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 eternal eternal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 solitudes solitude NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 — - PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 31 prone prone NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 upon upon ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 gazing gaze VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 conj _ _ 37 upward upward ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 solemn solemn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 unmeasured unmeasured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 depths depth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 infinity infinity NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | planter | | | | day | upon the great giant planter; suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon giant=Location | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | planter *not said here* | prone | | | | upon the earth amid the vast eternal solitudes | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prone=Theme | | 3 | **lie** | gerund | the vast eternal solitudes *not said here* | prone | | | | upon the earth | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prone=Theme | | 4 | **gaze** | gerund | the vast eternal solitudes *not said here* | | | | | into the solemn sky and the unmeasured depths of infinity; upward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into sky=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/72/) - ↑ back to [The Wisdom Keeper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/)