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title: Northward, northward, along the low-lying seashore, Ilmarinen pursue… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Northward, northward, along the low-lying seashore, Ilmarinen pursued his course, never pausing, never faltering. Who acts: Ilmarinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 1

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Northward, northward, along the low-lying seashore, Ilmarinen pursued his course, never pausing, never faltering.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** lie, pursue, not pause, not falter · **To what, where:** course, lying seashore

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:21:1
# text = Northward, northward, along the low-lying seashore, Ilmarinen pursued his course, never pausing, never faltering.
1	Northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	pausing	pause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	faltering	falter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pursue** | past | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen's course |  | the lying seashore |  | northward *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent course=Theme along seashore=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **pause** | gerund | Ilmarinen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **falter** | gerund | Ilmarinen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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