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title: The wild geese honked noisily in the marshy lakes and sought their n… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The wild geese honked noisily in the marshy lakes and sought their nesting places by the creeks. Who acts: wild geese. 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 5

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The wild geese honked noisily in the marshy lakes and sought their nesting places by the creeks.

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**Who acts:** wild geese · **What happens:** honk, seek · **To what, where:** wild geese, marshy lakes, nesting places

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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 (wild geese), 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:pg66819:22:5
# text = The wild geese honked noisily in the marshy lakes and sought their nesting places by the creeks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	honked	honk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	noisily	noisily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	marshy	marshy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	nesting	nesting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	creeks	creek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **honk** | participle |  | the wild geese *not said here* |  | the marshy lakes |  | noisily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Location |
| 2 | **seek** | past | the wild geese | geese's nesting places |  |  |  | by the creeks | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme by creek=Location |

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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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