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title: The slave boy descended from the tree, still singing, still shouting… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The slave boy descended from the tree, still singing, still shouting, still working the magic spell. Who acts: slave boy. 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 141

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The slave boy descended from the tree, still singing, still shouting, still working the magic spell.

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**Who acts:** slave boy · **What happens:** descend, sing, shout, work · **To what, where:** tree, magic spell

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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 (slave boy), 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:pg66819:29:141
# text = The slave boy descended from the tree, still singing, still shouting, still working the magic spell.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	descended	descend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | past | the slave boy |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Location |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the slave boy *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the slave boy *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **work** | gerund | the slave boy *not said here* | the magic spell |  |  | still |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent spell=Material |

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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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