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title: Five times—yes, six—Kullervo blew a long, piercing blast which might… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Five times—yes, six—Kullervo blew a long, piercing blast which might have been heard half-way across the sea. Who acts: Kullervo. 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 156

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Five times—yes, six—Kullervo blew a long, piercing blast which might have been heard half-way across the sea.

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**Who acts:** Kullervo · **What happens:** blow, pierce, hear · **To what, where:** long piercing blast, sea

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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 (Kullervo), 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:pg66819:29:156
# text = Five times—yes, six—Kullervo blew a long, piercing blast which might have been heard half-way across the sea.
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Kullervo	Kullervo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	piercing	pierce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	across	across	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | Kullervo | a long piercing blast |  |  | time |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient |
| 2 | **pierce** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | might · perfect · passive |  | a long piercing blast |  | the sea |  | half way *obj* | tree rules |

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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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