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title: Suddenly Anniki paused in the midst of her dancing and cried out, “O… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly Anniki paused in the midst of her dancing and cried out, “O Wainamoinen! Who acts: Anniki, Tra. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 48

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Suddenly Anniki paused in the midst of her dancing and cried out, “O Wainamoinen!

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**Who acts:** Anniki, Tra · **What happens:** pause, cry out, dance · **To what, where:** midst, Wainamoinen

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anniki, Tra), 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:pg66819:19:48
# text = Suddenly Anniki paused in the midst of her dancing and cried out, “O Wainamoinen!
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Anniki	Anniki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | Anniki |  |  | the midst of Tra's dancing |  | suddenly *property* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Anniki *not said here* | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dance** |  | Tra |  |  |  |  |  | nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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