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title: Then up flew a pair of ravens, one lighting upon a blasted pine and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then up flew a pair of ravens, one lighting upon a blasted pine and one taking shelter in a grove of oaks. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 107

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Then up flew a pair of ravens, one lighting upon a blasted pine and one taking shelter in a grove of oaks.

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**What happens:** fly, blast, take · **To what, where:** pair, shelter, grove

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. 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:pg66819:29:107
# text = Then up flew a pair of ravens, one lighting upon a blasted pine and one taking shelter in a grove of oaks.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	lighting	lighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	blasted	blast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	_
17	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past |  | a pair of ravens |  |  | then | one lighting upon a blasted pine *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=Theme |
| 2 | **blast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | gerund |  | shelter |  | a grove of oaks |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in grove=Location |

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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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