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title: Put your proud heads down, quit your hideous hissing, cease your wri… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Put your proud heads down, quit your hideous hissing, cease your wriggling and your writhing. Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 102

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Put your proud heads down, quit your hideous hissing, cease your wriggling and your writhing.

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** put, quit, cease, hiss · **To what, where:** proud heads, hideous hissing, wriggling

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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:pg66819:24:102
# text = Put your proud heads down, quit your hideous hissing, cease your wriggling and your writhing.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	quit	quit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hissing	hissing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	cease	cease	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wriggling	wriggling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	writhing	writhing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | your proud heads |  |  |  | down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
| 2 | **quit** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your hideous hissing |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hissing=Source |
| 3 | **cease** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your wriggling and your writhing |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wriggling=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hiss** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom hissing «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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