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title: The bears were roused from their lurking holes and came forth growli… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The bears were roused from their lurking holes and came forth growling, their tongues lolling out. Who acts: tongues. 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 131

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The bears were roused from their lurking holes and came forth growling, their tongues lolling out.

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**Who acts:** tongues · **What happens:** rouse, come, growl, loll out · **To what, where:** bears, lurking holes, tongues

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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 (tongues), 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:pg66819:29:131
# text = The bears were roused from their lurking holes and came forth growling, their tongues lolling out.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	roused	rouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lurking	lurking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	growling	growl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	lolling	loll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rouse** | past · passive |  | the bears |  | bears's lurking holes |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **growl** | gerund |  | bears's tongues |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Topic |
| 4 | **loll out** | gerund | bears's tongues *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «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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