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title: The gray racer neighed shrilly and flew onward with redoubled speed. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The gray racer neighed shrilly and flew onward with redoubled speed. Who acts: gray racer. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 156

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The gray racer neighed shrilly and flew onward with redoubled speed.

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**Who acts:** gray racer · **What happens:** neigh, fly, redouble

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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 (gray racer), 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:pg66819:20:156
# text = The gray racer neighed shrilly and flew onward with redoubled speed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	racer	racer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	neighed	neigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	shrilly	shrilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	redoubled	redouble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **neigh** | past | the gray racer |  |  |  |  | shrilly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fly** | past | the gray racer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with redoubled speed; onward *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **redouble** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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