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title: Like a destroying flood they invaded the farmhouse, breaking down th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Like a destroying flood they invaded the farmhouse, breaking down the doors, overturning the tables and benches, filling every room with their horrid presence. Who acts: jaws. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance, with its dependency tree a
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 75

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Like a destroying flood they invaded the farmhouse, breaking down the doors, overturning the tables and benches, filling every room with their horrid presence.

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**Who acts:** jaws · **What happens:** destroy, invade, break down, overturn, fill · **To what, where:** farmhouse, doors, tables, room

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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 (jaws), 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:pg66819:30:75
# text = Like a destroying flood they invaded the farmhouse, breaking down the doors, overturning the tables and benches, filling every room with their horrid presence.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	overturning	overturn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	benches	bench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **invade** | past | jaws *= jaw* | the farmhouse |  |  |  | like a destroying flood | tree rules |
| 3 | **break down** | gerund | jaws *= jaw* *not said here* | the doors |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **overturn** | gerund | jaws *= jaw* *not said here* | the tables and benches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fill** | gerund | jaws *= jaw* *not said here* | every room |  |  |  | with jaws's horrid presence | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with presence=Instrument |

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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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