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title: In four directions they went, yes in eight directions they hastened,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: In four directions they went, yes in eight directions they hastened, telling all the world how the hero, Ilmarinen, was to be wedded on a certain day to the Maid of Beauty, whom all the world adored. Who acts: messengers. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Th
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 39

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In four directions they went, yes in eight directions they hastened, telling all the world how the hero, Ilmarinen, was to be wedded on a certain day to the Maid of Beauty, whom all the world adored.

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**Who acts:** messengers · **What happens:** go, hasten, tell, wed, adore · **To what, where:** four directions, eight directions, world, hero, certain day · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messengers), 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:pg66819:27:39
# text = In four directions they went, yes in eight directions they hastened, telling all the world how the hero, Ilmarinen, was to be wedded on a certain day to the Maid of Beauty, whom all the world adored.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	wedded	wed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
42	adored	adore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | messengers *= messenger* |  |  | four directions |  | in eight directions | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location |
| 2 | **hasten** | past | messengers *= messenger* | eight directions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent direction=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | messengers *= messenger* *not said here* | all world |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent world=Recipient |
| 4 | **wed** | past · passive |  | the hero |  |  | day |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **adore** | participle |  | a certain day to the Maid of Beauty |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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