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title: Instantly a hundred swordsmen were at her side, a thousand spearsmen… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Instantly a hundred swordsmen were at her side, a thousand spearsmen answered her call. Who acts: hundred swordsmen, thousand spearsmen, Loud. 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 60

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Instantly a hundred swordsmen were at her side, a thousand spearsmen answered her call.

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**Who acts:** hundred swordsmen, thousand spearsmen, Loud · **What happens:** be, answer, call · **To what, where:** side, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 swordsmen, thousand spearsmen, Loud), 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:pg66819:35:60
# text = Instantly a hundred swordsmen were at her side, a thousand spearsmen answered her call.
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	swordsmen	swordsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	spearsmen	spearsmen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a hundred swordsmen |  |  | Loud's side |  | Loud *nmod:poss*; instantly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | thousand spearsmen | Loud's call |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality |
| 3 | **call** |  | Loud |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: 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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