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title: Could it be the buzzing of a weaver’s shuttle shooting through some… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Could it be the buzzing of a weaver’s shuttle shooting through some loom on the craggy heights above him? Who acts: song, shuttle. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 11

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Could it be the buzzing of a weaver’s shuttle shooting through some loom on the craggy heights above him?

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**Who acts:** song, shuttle · **What happens:** be, shoot · **To what, where:** buzzing, loom

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, shuttle), 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:pg66819:3:11
# text = Could it be the buzzing of a weaver’s shuttle shooting through some loom on the craggy heights above him?
1	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	weaver	weaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	shuttle	shuttle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	loom	loom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	craggy	craggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
19	above	above	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | could | song | the buzzing |  |  |  | of a weaver's shuttle | tree rules |
| 2 | **shoot** | gerund | a weaver's shuttle *not said here* |  |  | some loom |  | on the craggy heights above sledge | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through loom=Destination |

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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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