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title: Anniki ran into the forest and gathered armloads of pine-knots, dry… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Anniki ran into the forest and gathered armloads of pine-knots, dry and resinous and impatient to be burned. Who acts: Anniki. 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 82

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Anniki ran into the forest and gathered armloads of pine-knots, dry and resinous and impatient to be burned.

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**Who acts:** Anniki · **What happens:** run, gather, burn · **To what, where:** forest, armloads

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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), 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:pg66819:20:82
# text = Anniki ran into the forest and gathered armloads of pine-knots, dry and resinous and impatient to be burned.
1	Anniki	Anniki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	armloads	armload	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	knots	knot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	resinous	resinous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Anniki |  |  |  |  | into the forest *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result |
| 2 | **gather** | past | Anniki *not said here* | armloads of pine knots |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armload=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | to-infinitive · passive | Anniki *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V» |

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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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