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title: Instantly the wild beasts leaped upon them with bared claws and gnas… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Instantly the wild beasts leaped upon them with bared claws and gnashing teeth. 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 134

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Instantly the wild beasts leaped upon them with bared claws and gnashing teeth.

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**What happens:** leap, bare, gnash · **To what, where:** wild beasts, 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: 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:pg66819:29:134
# text = Instantly the wild beasts leaped upon them with bared claws and gnashing teeth.
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	bared	bare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gnashing	gnash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | participle |  | the wild beasts *not said here* |  |  |  | upon cows *= cow*; with bared claws | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory |
| 2 | **bare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gnash** | gerund |  | teeth |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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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