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title: On the deck the long-armed Ahti danced nimbly and joyously, forgetfu… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On the deck the long-armed Ahti danced nimbly and joyously, forgetful of his fishing, forgetful of his hunger. Who acts: armed Ahti, Ahti. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 3

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On the deck the long-armed Ahti danced nimbly and joyously, forgetful of his fishing, forgetful of his hunger.

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**Who acts:** armed Ahti, Ahti · **What happens:** dance, fish, hunger · **To what, where:** forgetful, deck

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (armed Ahti, Ahti), 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:pg66819:34:3
# text = On the deck the long-armed Ahti danced nimbly and joyously, forgetful of his fishing, forgetful of his hunger.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	joyously	joyously	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	forgetful	forgetful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	forgetful	forgetful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | the armed Ahti | forgetful of Ahti's hunger |  | the deck |  | nimbly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=Location |
| 2 | **fish** |  | Ahti |  |  |  |  |  | nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **hunger** |  | Ahti |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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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