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title: Their strength forsook them and they sank, one by one, upon the grou… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Their strength forsook them and they sank, one by one, upon the ground, all overcome with weariness. Who acts: strength, people, ground. 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 clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 114

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Their strength forsook them and they sank, one by one, upon the ground, all overcome with weariness.

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**Who acts:** strength, people, ground · **What happens:** forsake, sink, overcome · **To what, where:** people, one

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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 (strength, people, ground), 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:pg66819:35:114
# text = Their strength forsook them and they sank, one by one, upon the ground, all overcome with weariness.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forsook	forsake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** | past | people's strength | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sink** | past | people | one |  |  |  | by one; upon the ground | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 3 | **overcome** | present | the ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with weariness | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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