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title: Then, losing patience, she ran through the thick of the smoke and se… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, losing patience, she ran through the thick of the smoke and seized her brother’s arm just as he was taking a fresh bit of glowing metal from the fire. Who acts: Anniki, pause, fresh bit. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with it
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 14

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Then, losing patience, she ran through the thick of the smoke and seized her brother’s arm just as he was taking a fresh bit of glowing metal from the fire.

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**Who acts:** Anniki, pause, fresh bit · **What happens:** lose, run, seize, take, glow · **To what, where:** patience, arm, fresh bit, metal, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anniki, pause, fresh bit), 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:pg66819:20:14
# text = Then, losing patience, she ran through the thick of the smoke and seized her brother’s arm just as he was taking a fresh bit of glowing metal from the fire.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
4	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund | Anniki *not said here* | patience |  |  | then |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality |
| 2 | **run** | past | Anniki |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seize** | past | Anniki *not said here* | Anniki's brother's arm |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past · progressive | pause | a fresh bit |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |
| 5 | **glow** | gerund | a fresh bit *not said here* | metal |  | the fire |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent metal=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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