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title: The slender mast croaked to the wind like a raven croaking to its ma… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The slender mast croaked to the wind like a raven croaking to its mate. Who acts: raven. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 105

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The slender mast croaked to the wind like a raven croaking to its mate.

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**Who acts:** raven · **What happens:** croak · **To what, where:** slender mast, wind, mate

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven), 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:pg66819:33:105
# text = The slender mast croaked to the wind like a raven croaking to its mate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	croaked	croak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	croaking	croak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **croak** | participle |  | the slender mast *not said here* | the wind like a raven |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wind=Recipient |
| 2 | **croak** | gerund | a raven *not said here* |  | raven's mate |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mate=Recipient |

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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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