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title: And under the tree stood Ilmarinen, helpless, imploring, angrily rem… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And under the tree stood Ilmarinen, helpless, imploring, angrily remonstrating, “O faithless bird! 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 95

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And under the tree stood Ilmarinen, helpless, imploring, angrily remonstrating, “O faithless bird!

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**What happens:** stand, implore, remonstrate · **To what, where:** Ilmarinen, tree, faithless bird

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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: 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:pg66819:25:95
# text = And under the tree stood Ilmarinen, helpless, imploring, angrily remonstrating, “O faithless bird!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	imploring	implore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	remonstrating	remonstrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
17	faithless	faithless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | Ilmarinen |  | the tree |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ilmarinen=Theme under tree=Destination |
| 2 | **implore** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remonstrate** | gerund |  | faithless bird |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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