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title: All the savagery that had been lurking in his blue eyes burst forth,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: All the savagery that had been lurking in his blue eyes burst forth, as lightning bursts from the drifting clouds. Who acts: savagery, lightning. 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 125

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All the savagery that had been lurking in his blue eyes burst forth, as lightning bursts from the drifting clouds.

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**Who acts:** savagery, lightning · **What happens:** lurk, burst, drift · **To what, where:** blue eyes, drifting clouds

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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: who acts (savagery, lightning), 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:pg66819:29:125
# text = All the savagery that had been lurking in his blue eyes burst forth, as lightning bursts from the drifting clouds.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	savagery	savagery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
7	lurking	lurk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	burst	burst	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bursts	burst	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	drifting	drift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lurk** | past · perfect · progressive | all savagery |  |  | savagery's blue eyes |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location |
| 2 | **burst** | present | all savagery |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **burst** | present | lightning |  |  | the drifting clouds |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **drift** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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