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title: There they squatted down in orderly rows, their ears pricked up, lis… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: There they squatted down in orderly rows, their ears pricked up, listening and rejoicing. Who acts: wolves. 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 73

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There they squatted down in orderly rows, their ears pricked up, listening and rejoicing.

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**Who acts:** wolves · **What happens:** squat down, prick up, listen, rejoice · **To what, where:** orderly rows, ears

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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 (wolves), 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:pg66819:35:73
# text = There they squatted down in orderly rows, their ears pricked up, listening and rejoicing.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	squatted	squat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	orderly	orderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	pricked	prick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squat down** | past | wolves *= wolf* |  |  | orderly rows and wolves's ears; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location |
| 2 | **prick up** | participle |  | wolves's ears *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **listen** | gerund | wolves *= wolf* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rejoice** | gerund | wolves *= wolf* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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