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title: The name of that hero was Piru, and after he had performed his task… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The name of that hero was Piru, and after he had performed his task he came from the field of horrors unbitten and unharmed. Who acts: name, Piru. 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 c
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 39

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The name of that hero was Piru, and after he had performed his task he came from the field of horrors unbitten and unharmed.

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**Who acts:** name, Piru · **What happens:** be, perform, come, name, task · **To what, where:** Piru, task, field, hero

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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 (name, Piru), 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:pg66819:24:39
# text = The name of that hero was Piru, and after he had performed his task he came from the field of horrors unbitten and unharmed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Piru	Piru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	horrors	horror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	unbitten	unbitten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	unharmed	unharmed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the name of that hero | Piru |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perform** | past · perfect | Piru | Piru's task |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Piru | Piru's task *not said here* |  | the field of horrors |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location task=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | that hero |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **task** |  | Piru |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act 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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