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title: Not for a moment did the bird of iron pause, nor did she rest in her… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Not for a moment did the bird of iron pause, nor did she rest in her flight until she reached the distant moon. Who acts: bird. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 105

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Not for a moment did the bird of iron pause, nor did she rest in her flight until she reached the distant moon.

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**Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** not do, rest, reach · **To what, where:** bird, flight, distant moon

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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:pg66819:25:105
# text = Not for a moment did the bird of iron pause, nor did she rest in her flight until she reached the distant moon.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pause	pause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past |  | the bird of iron pause |  |  | moment |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality |
| 2 | **rest** | past · do-support | bird |  |  | bird's flight |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in flight=Location |
| 3 | **reach** | past | bird | the distant moon |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent moon=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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