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title: She twirled the rowan branch once, twice, thrice in the air above he… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She twirled the rowan branch once, twice, thrice in the air above her head, and then cast it upon the hearth, scattering the ashes to right and left and sending a cloud of cinders upward through the smoke hole. Who acts: world. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldw
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 148

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She twirled the rowan branch once, twice, thrice in the air above her head, and then cast it upon the hearth, scattering the ashes to right and left and sending a cloud of cinders upward through the smoke hole.

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**Who acts:** world · **What happens:** twirl, cast, scatter, send, cloud · **To what, where:** rowan branch, head, hearth, ashes, cloud, smoke hole

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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 (world), 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:pg66819:22:148
# text = She twirled the rowan branch once, twice, thrice in the air above her head, and then cast it upon the hearth, scattering the ashes to right and left and sending a cloud of cinders upward through the smoke hole.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	twirled	twirl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rowan	rowan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	thrice	thrice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	above	above	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	scattering	scatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
39	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
40	through	through	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twirl** | past | world | the rowan branch |  |  |  | once *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent branch=Material |
| 2 | **cast** | infinitive | world *not said here* | head |  | the hearth | then |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon hearth=Destination |
| 3 | **scatter** | gerund | world *not said here* | the ashes |  |  |  | to right | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=Theme |
| 4 | **send** | gerund | world *not said here* | a cloud of cinders |  | the smoke hole |  | upward *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme |
| 5 | **cloud** |  |  | cinders |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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