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title: Wild ducks from the deep inlets of the northern sea and snow-white s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild ducks from the deep inlets of the northern sea and snow-white swans from the marshes of Pohyola came in flocks to hearken to his singing. Who acts: Wild ducks, Pohyola. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 78

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Wild ducks from the deep inlets of the northern sea and snow-white swans from the marshes of Pohyola came in flocks to hearken to his singing.

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**Who acts:** Wild ducks, Pohyola · **What happens:** come, hearken, sing · **To what, where:** flocks

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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 (Wild ducks, Pohyola), 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:pg66819:35:78
# text = Wild ducks from the deep inlets of the northern sea and snow-white swans from the marshes of Pohyola came in flocks to hearken to his singing.
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	inlets	inlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Wild ducks from the deep inlets of the northern sea and snow white swans from the marshes of Pohyola |  |  | flocks |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flock=Location |
| 2 | **hearken** | to-infinitive | Wild ducks from the deep inlets of the northern sea and snow white swans from the marshes of Pohyola *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Pohyola's singing | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** |  | Pohyola |  |  |  |  |  | nom singing «act 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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