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title: “In the dark and sluggish river that surrounds the land of Tuonela t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “In the dark and sluggish river that surrounds the land of Tuonela there lives a monstrous fish, a pike so huge, so scaly, so fierce that all the fishes of the sea obey him. Who acts: dark river, land, fishes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 33

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“In the dark and sluggish river that surrounds the land of Tuonela there lives a monstrous fish, a pike so huge, so scaly, so fierce that all the fishes of the sea obey him.

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**Who acts:** dark river, land, fishes · **What happens:** surround, live, obey · **To what, where:** land, monstrous fish, pike

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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 (dark river, land, fishes), 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:pg66819:25:33
# text = “In the dark and sluggish river that surrounds the land of Tuonela there lives a monstrous fish, a pike so huge, so scaly, so fierce that all the fishes of the sea obey him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	surrounds	surround	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Tuonela	Tuonela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	scaly	scaly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	obey	obey	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** *in a quote* | present | the dark river | the land |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | present | the land *not said here* | a monstrous fish and a pike |  | there |  | of Tuonela | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fish=Location |
| 3 | **obey** *in a quote* | present | all fishes of the sea | pike |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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