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title: Out of the shady places wolves leaped up, howling, snarling, snappin… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of the shady places wolves leaped up, howling, snarling, snapping their teeth. Who acts: wolves. 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 130

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Out of the shady places wolves leaped up, howling, snarling, snapping their teeth.

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**Who acts:** wolves · **What happens:** leap up, howl, snarl, snap · **To what, where:** shady places, teeth

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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 (wolves), 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:pg66819:29:130
# text = Out of the shady places wolves leaped up, howling, snarling, snapping their teeth.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	snarling	snarl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	snapping	snap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap up** | participle | wolves |  |  | the shady places |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out place=Trajectory |
| 2 | **howl** | gerund | wolves *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **snarl** | gerund | wolves *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **snap** | gerund | wolves *not said here* | wolves's teeth |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tooth=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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