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title: The hundred brave swordsmen and the thousand spearsmen of Pohyola we… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The hundred brave swordsmen and the thousand spearsmen of Pohyola were soundly sleeping. Who acts: hundred brave swordsmen. 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 117

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The hundred brave swordsmen and the thousand spearsmen of Pohyola were soundly sleeping.

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**Who acts:** hundred brave swordsmen · **What happens:** sleep

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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 (hundred brave swordsmen), 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:pg66819:35:117
# text = The hundred brave swordsmen and the thousand spearsmen of Pohyola were soundly sleeping.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	swordsmen	swordsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	spearsmen	spearsmen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past · progressive | the hundred brave swordsmen and the thousand spearsmen of Pohyola |  |  |  |  | soundly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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