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title: Quickly from the clouds of scalding vapor a wonderful bird leaped in… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Quickly from the clouds of scalding vapor a wonderful bird leaped into being. Who acts: clouds. 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 61

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Quickly from the clouds of scalding vapor a wonderful bird leaped into being.

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**Who acts:** clouds · **What happens:** vapor, leap, cloud · **To what, where:** wonderful bird, scalding

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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 (clouds), 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:pg66819:25:61
# text = Quickly from the clouds of scalding vapor a wonderful bird leaped into being.
1	Quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	scalding	scalding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	vapor	vapor	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vapor** | present | the clouds of scalding | a wonderful bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leap** | participle |  | a wonderful bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cloud** |  |  | scalding |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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