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title: Little fishes and large fishes came in shoals and lifted up their he… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Little fishes and large fishes came in shoals and lifted up their heads along the beach to rejoice and wonder. Who acts: Little fishes. 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 83

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Little fishes and large fishes came in shoals and lifted up their heads along the beach to rejoice and wonder.

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**Who acts:** Little fishes · **What happens:** come, lift up, rejoice, wonder · **To what, where:** shoals, heads, beach

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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 (Little fishes), 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:pg66819:35:83
# text = Little fishes and large fishes came in shoals and lifted up their heads along the beach to rejoice and wonder.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	shoals	shoal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Little fishes and large fishes |  |  | shoals |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shoal=Location |
| 2 | **lift up** | past | Little fishes and large fishes *not said here* | fishes's heads |  | the beach |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme along beach=Destination |
| 3 | **rejoice** | to-infinitive | Little fishes and large fishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Little fishes and large fishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «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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