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title: Soon there was a sound of creaking, rumbling, scraping—a sound not l… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon there was a sound of creaking, rumbling, scraping—a sound not loud, but distinct and growing stronger. Who acts: sound. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 38

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Soon there was a sound of creaking, rumbling, scraping—a sound not loud, but distinct and growing stronger.

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**Who acts:** sound · **What happens:** creak, rumble, scrape, be, grow · **To what, where:** sound

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound), 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:pg66819:18:38
# text = Soon there was a sound of creaking, rumbling, scraping—a sound not loud, but distinct and growing stronger.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	creaking	creak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	rumbling	rumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	scraping	scrape	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creak** | gerund | a sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rumble** | gerund | a sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **scrape** | gerund | a sound *not said here* | a sound |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | distinct *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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