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title: Sharp were their appetites, and when they had finished, nothing was… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharp were their appetites, and when they had finished, nothing was left of the mighty head save its bones and its dagger-like teeth which lay scattered on the beach. Who acts: appetites, like teeth. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its de
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 62

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Sharp were their appetites, and when they had finished, nothing was left of the mighty head save its bones and its dagger-like teeth which lay scattered on the beach.

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**Who acts:** appetites, like teeth · **What happens:** finish, leave, save, lay, scatter · **To what, where:** nothing, bones, beach, Sharp

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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 (appetites, like teeth), 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:pg66819:34:62
# text = Sharp were their appetites, and when they had finished, nothing was left of the mighty head save its bones and its dagger-like teeth which lay scattered on the beach.
1	Sharp	sharp	PROPN	GW	Typo=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	goeswith	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	appetites	appetite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
24	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	xcomp	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | appetites *= appetite* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **leave** | past · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  | of the mighty head | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of head=Destination |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive |  | head's bones and head's like teeth |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | present | head's like teeth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **scatter** | participle | head's like teeth *not said here* |  |  | the beach |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on beach=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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