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title: It is the savage whoop of the slave Kullervo, bidding the beasts per… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the savage whoop of the slave Kullervo, bidding the beasts perform the dreadful business which he alone has planned. Who acts: sound, beasts. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 64

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It is the savage whoop of the slave Kullervo, bidding the beasts perform the dreadful business which he alone has planned.

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**Who acts:** sound, beasts · **What happens:** be, bid, perform, plan · **To what, where:** savage whoop, dreadful business

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, beasts), 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:pg66819:30:64
# text = It is the savage whoop of the slave Kullervo, bidding the beasts perform the dreadful business which he alone has planned.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	whoop	whoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	Kullervo	Kullervo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	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 | **is a** | present | sound | the savage whoop |  |  |  | of the slave | tree rules |
| 2 | **bid** | gerund | sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **perform** | present | the beasts | the dreadful business |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme |
| 4 | **plan** | present · perfect · passive |  | the dreadful business |  |  |  | beast *nsubj*; alone *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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