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title: Hastily with her spoon-like beak she gathered them up, she carried t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Hastily with her spoon-like beak she gathered them up, she carried them to Wainamoinen and laid them on the grass before him. Who acts: spinning. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 107

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Hastily with her spoon-like beak she gathered them up, she carried them to Wainamoinen and laid them on the grass before him.

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**Who acts:** spinning · **What happens:** gather up, carry, lay · **To what, where:** drops, Wainamoinen, grass

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spinning), 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:pg66819:35:107
# text = Hastily with her spoon-like beak she gathered them up, she carried them to Wainamoinen and laid them on the grass before him.
1	Hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather up** | past | spinning | drops *= drop* |  |  |  | with spinning's like beak; hastily *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with beak=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | past | spinning | drops *= drop* | Wainamoinen |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to wainamoinen=Destination |
| 3 | **lay** | past | spinning *not said here* | drops *= drop* |  | the grass | before Wainamoinen |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on grass=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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