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title: Not long, however, was the fight delayed, for soon the furious fish… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long, however, was the fight delayed, for soon the furious fish rose again and, swift as lightning, leaped upward to the combat. Who acts: fight, furious fish. 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 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 90

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Not long, however, was the fight delayed, for soon the furious fish rose again and, swift as lightning, leaped upward to the combat.

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**Who acts:** fight, furious fish · **What happens:** be, rise, swift, leap · **To what, where:** lightning, combat

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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 (fight, furious fish), 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:pg66819:25:90
# text = Not long, however, was the fight delayed, for soon the furious fish rose again and, swift as lightning, leaped upward to the combat.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	delayed	delay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	swift	swift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
25	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the fight |  |  |  |  | delay, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the furious fish |  |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swift** | present | the furious fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as lightning | tree rules |
| 4 | **leap** | participle |  | lightning *not said here* |  | the combat |  | upward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to combat=Destination |

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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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