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title: Upon this rock the eagle sat and watched for her prey, and Ilmarinen… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon this rock the eagle sat and watched for her prey, and Ilmarinen waited patiently beside her. Who acts: eagle, Ilmarinen. 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 77

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Upon this rock the eagle sat and watched for her prey, and Ilmarinen waited patiently beside her.

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**Who acts:** eagle, Ilmarinen · **What happens:** sit, watch, wait · **To what, where:** rock

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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 (eagle, Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:25:77
# text = Upon this rock the eagle sat and watched for her prey, and Ilmarinen waited patiently beside her.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the eagle |  |  | this rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rock=Location |
| 2 | **watch** | past | the eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for eagle's prey | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for prey=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** | past | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  | beside eagle; patiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside she=Location |

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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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