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title: Then in the dim evening twilight the hero perceived six cuckoos perc… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then in the dim evening twilight the hero perceived six cuckoos perched on the dashboard before him, and beside them seven small bluebirds were sitting. Who acts: hero. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 150

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Then in the dim evening twilight the hero perceived six cuckoos perched on the dashboard before him, and beside them seven small bluebirds were sitting.

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**Who acts:** hero · **What happens:** perceive, perch, sit · **To what, where:** six cuckoos, dim evening twilight, dashboard

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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:pg66819:20:150
# text = Then in the dim evening twilight the hero perceived six cuckoos perched on the dashboard before him, and beside them seven small bluebirds were sitting.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	cuckoos	cuckoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dashboard	dashboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
22	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bluebirds	bluebird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | the hero | six cuckoos |  | the dim evening twilight | then |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cuckoo=Stimulus |
| 2 | **perch** | participle |  | six cuckoos *not said here* |  | the dashboard | before hero |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on dashboard=Location |
| 3 | **sit** | past · progressive | the hero *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside courage | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=Location |

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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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