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title: By and by from the black mud at the river’s bottom a water sprite ar… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: By and by from the black mud at the river’s bottom a water sprite arose. Who acts: water sprite. 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 78

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By and by from the black mud at the river’s bottom a water sprite arose.

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**Who acts:** water sprite · **What happens:** arise

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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 (water sprite), 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:pg66819:25:78
# text = By and by from the black mud at the river’s bottom a water sprite arose.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sprite	sprite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | a water sprite |  |  |  |  | by the black mud at the river's bottom | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by mud=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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