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title: Like the wind he flew through the woods and the marshes and along th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Like the wind he flew through the woods and the marshes and along the pebbly shores of the sea; and the heart of the brave Smith was cheered with courage and hope. Who acts: hero. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its dependency 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 149

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Like the wind he flew through the woods and the marshes and along the pebbly shores of the sea; and the heart of the brave Smith was cheered with courage and hope.

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**Who acts:** hero · **What happens:** fly, cheer · **To what, where:** woods, heart

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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 (hero), 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:pg66819:20:149
# text = Like the wind he flew through the woods and the marshes and along the pebbly shores of the sea; and the heart of the brave Smith was cheered with courage and hope.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | hero |  |  | the woods and the marshes and the pebbly shores of the sea |  | like the wind | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through wood=Location |
| 2 | **cheer** | past · passive |  | the heart of the brave Smith |  |  |  | with courage and hope | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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