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title: In the marshes the savage wolves awoke and stretched themselves, and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: In the marshes the savage wolves awoke and stretched themselves, and then with one accord rushed out and ran with speed to the spot where the kantele was playing. Who acts: savage wolves, kantele. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 72

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In the marshes the savage wolves awoke and stretched themselves, and then with one accord rushed out and ran with speed to the spot where the kantele was playing.

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**Who acts:** savage wolves, kantele · **What happens:** awake, stretch, rush out, run, play · **To what, where:** marshes, wolves

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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 (savage wolves, kantele), 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:pg66819:35:72
# text = In the marshes the savage wolves awoke and stretched themselves, and then with one accord rushed out and ran with speed to the spot where the kantele was playing.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	savage	savage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	kantele	kantele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | the savage wolves |  |  | the marshes |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in marsh=Location |
| 2 | **stretch** | past | the savage wolves *not said here* | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 3 | **rush out** | participle |  |  |  |  | then | with one accord | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with accord=Eventuality |
| 4 | **run** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with speed; to the spot *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spot=Result |
| 5 | **play** | past · progressive | the kantele |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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