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title: The dwarf Sakko deftly seized the heated branch and held it aloft th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The dwarf Sakko deftly seized the heated branch and held it aloft that all might see the oozing drops. Who acts: dwarf Sakko, all, oozing. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 130

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The dwarf Sakko deftly seized the heated branch and held it aloft that all might see the oozing drops.

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**Who acts:** dwarf Sakko, all, oozing · **What happens:** seize, heat, hold, see, drop · **To what, where:** heated branch, sap · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf Sakko, all, oozing), 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:pg66819:22:130
# text = The dwarf Sakko deftly seized the heated branch and held it aloft that all might see the oozing drops.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Sakko	Sakko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	deftly	deftly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	oozing	oozing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | the dwarf Sakko | the heated branch |  |  |  | deftly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 2 | **heat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hold** | past | the dwarf Sakko *not said here* | sap |  |  |  | aloft *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | might | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **drop** | present | the oozing |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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