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title: Half crouching, he slunk away behind hedges and bushes until his ung… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Half crouching, he slunk away behind hedges and bushes until his ungainly form was lost to sight among the evening shadows. 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 158

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Half crouching, he slunk away behind hedges and bushes until his ungainly form was lost to sight among the evening shadows.

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**Who acts:** Kullervo · **What happens:** crouch, slink away, lose, form · **To what, where:** hedges, ungainly form

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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:pg66819:29:158
# text = Half crouching, he slunk away behind hedges and bushes until his ungainly form was lost to sight among the evening shadows.
1	Half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	compound	_	_
2	crouching	crouch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	slunk	slink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ungainly	ungainly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crouch** | gerund | Kullervo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Half *compound* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **slink away** | past | Kullervo |  |  | hedges and bushes |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind hedge=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lose** | past · passive |  | Kullervo's ungainly form |  |  |  | among the evening shadows; sight *xcomp* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **form** |  | Kullervo |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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