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title: With a glad heart did Wainamoinen speed across the brown meadows and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With a glad heart did Wainamoinen speed across the brown meadows and into the silent forest; his face beamed like the sunlight, his eyes glowed like twin stars, and a song was ready to burst from his lips. Who acts: face, song. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldw
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 169

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With a glad heart did Wainamoinen speed across the brown meadows and into the silent forest; his face beamed like the sunlight, his eyes glowed like twin stars, and a song was ready to burst from his lips.

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**Who acts:** face, song · **What happens:** do, beam, glow, be, burst · **To what, where:** Wainamoinen speed, brown meadows, face, lips

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, song), 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:pg66819:2:169
# text = With a glad heart did Wainamoinen speed across the brown meadows and into the silent forest; his face beamed like the sunlight, his eyes glowed like twin stars, and a song was ready to burst from his lips.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
20	beamed	beam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	twin	twin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Wainamoinen speed |  | the brown meadows and the silent forest |  | with a glad heart | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Eventuality |
| 2 | **beam** | participle |  | sky's face *not said here* |  |  |  | like the sunlight | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **glow** | past | sky's face | the brown meadows and the silent forest *not said here* |  |  |  | like twin stars; sky's eyes *nsubj* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | a song |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **burst** | to-infinitive | a song *not said here* |  |  | sky's lips |  |  | 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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