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title: Sakko lifted the branch again and turned it this way and that, caref… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Sakko lifted the branch again and turned it this way and that, carefully examining the sizzling sap. Who acts: Sakko. 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 139

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Sakko lifted the branch again and turned it this way and that, carefully examining the sizzling sap.

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**Who acts:** Sakko · **What happens:** lift, turn, examine · **To what, where:** branch, stranger, sizzling sap

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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 (Sakko), 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:pg66819:22:139
# text = Sakko lifted the branch again and turned it this way and that, carefully examining the sizzling sap.
1	Sakko	Sakko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	examining	examine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sizzling	sizzling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | Sakko | the branch |  |  | again |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Sakko *not said here* | stranger |  |  |  | this way  that *obj* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent it=Theme way=Result |
| 3 | **examine** | gerund | Sakko *not said here* | the sizzling sap |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sap=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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