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title: Fiercely he dashed through the water, high into the air he leaped, t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Fiercely he dashed through the water, high into the air he leaped, thinking to seize and swallow Ilmarinen. Who acts: pike. 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 84

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Fiercely he dashed through the water, high into the air he leaped, thinking to seize and swallow Ilmarinen.

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**Who acts:** pike · **What happens:** dash, leap, think, seize, swallow · **To what, where:** water, air, Ilmarinen

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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 (pike), 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:pg66819:25:84
# text = Fiercely he dashed through the water, high into the air he leaped, thinking to seize and swallow Ilmarinen.
1	Fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dash** | past | pike |  |  | the water |  | fiercely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **leap** | past | pike | the air *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme air=Trajectory |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | pike *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **seize** | to-infinitive | pike *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **swallow** | infinitive | pike *not said here* | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ilmarinen=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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