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title: He gathered the yearlings together and, after much shouting and curs… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He gathered the yearlings together and, after much shouting and cursing, chased them into the tangled thickets where the wild beasts had their lairs. Who acts: savagery, wild beasts. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy, with its dependency tree a
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 129

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He gathered the yearlings together and, after much shouting and cursing, chased them into the tangled thickets where the wild beasts had their lairs.

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**Who acts:** savagery, wild beasts · **What happens:** gather, curse, chase, have · **To what, where:** yearlings, lairs

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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, wild beasts), 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:pg66819:29:129
# text = He gathered the yearlings together and, after much shouting and cursing, chased them into the tangled thickets where the wild beasts had their lairs.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	yearlings	yearling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cursing	curse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	tangled	tangled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	parataxis	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	lairs	lair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | savagery | the yearlings |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yearling=Theme |
| 2 | **curse** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **chase** | past | savagery *not said here* | yearlings *= yearling* |  |  | after much shouting | the tangled thickets *parataxis* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | the wild beasts | beasts's lairs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lair=Patient |

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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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