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title: Even the lazy bears came ambling from their lurking-places; they cli… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Even the lazy bears came ambling from their lurking-places; they climbed upon the rocks and into the trees and sat there in solemn silence, drinking in the bewitching sounds. Who acts: lazy bears, bears. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 74

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Even the lazy bears came ambling from their lurking-places; they climbed upon the rocks and into the trees and sat there in solemn silence, drinking in the bewitching sounds.

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**Who acts:** lazy bears, bears · **What happens:** come, amble, climb, sit, drink, bewitch · **To what, where:** lurking places, rocks, solemn silence, bewitching sounds

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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 (lazy bears, bears), 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:pg66819:35:74
# text = Even the lazy bears came ambling from their lurking-places; they climbed upon the rocks and into the trees and sat there in solemn silence, drinking in the bewitching sounds.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ambling	amble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lurking	lurking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	bewitching	bewitch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the lazy bears |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **amble** | gerund | the lazy bears *not said here* |  |  | bears's lurking places |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory |
| 3 | **climb** | past | bears *= bear* |  |  | the rocks and the trees |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rock=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sit** | past | bears *= bear* *not said here* |  |  | solemn silence; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location |
| 5 | **drink** | gerund | bears *= bear* *not said here* |  |  | the bewitching sounds |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bewitch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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