--- title: He looked, he listened, his heart throbbed with joy as he disrobed h… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: He looked, he listened, his heart throbbed with joy as he disrobed himself and poured the water slowly upon the red-hot bath-stones. Who acts: cuckoo, heart. 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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 (cuckoo, heart), 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:pg66819:20:107 # text = He looked, he listened, his heart throbbed with joy as he disrobed himself and poured the water slowly upon the red-hot bath-stones. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 throbbed throb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 disrobed disrobe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 15 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 poured pour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 23 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | cuckoo | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **listen** | past | cuckoo | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **throb** | participle | cuckoo's heart | | | | | with joy | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **disrobe** | past | cuckoo | cuckoo | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | | 5 | **pour** | past | cuckoo *not said here* | the water | | | | upon the hot bath stones; slowly *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | 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 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/20/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/20/108/) - ↑ back to [The Unexpected Journey](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/20/)