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title: The song of the cuckoo was hushed, and the wild geese in the inlets… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The song of the cuckoo was hushed, and the wild geese in the inlets were huddling together and preparing for flight. Who acts: wild geese, cuckoo. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 2

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The song of the cuckoo was hushed, and the wild geese in the inlets were huddling together and preparing for flight.

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**Who acts:** wild geese, cuckoo · **What happens:** hush, huddle, prepare, sing · **To what, where:** song

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild geese, cuckoo), 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:pg66819:26:2
# text = The song of the cuckoo was hushed, and the wild geese in the inlets were huddling together and preparing for flight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	hushed	hush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	inlets	inlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	huddling	huddle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hush** | past · passive |  | the song of the cuckoo |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **huddle** | past · progressive | the wild geese in the inlets |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **prepare** | gerund | the wild geese in the inlets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for flight | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for flight=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **sing** |  | the cuckoo |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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