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title: The slender pike, the graceful salmon, nimble herrings, all kinds of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The slender pike, the graceful salmon, nimble herrings, all kinds of finny creatures, came crowding to the shore to listen to the songs of Wainamoinen. Who acts: slender pike, Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its depe
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 84

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The slender pike, the graceful salmon, nimble herrings, all kinds of finny creatures, came crowding to the shore to listen to the songs of Wainamoinen.

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**Who acts:** slender pike, Wainamoinen · **What happens:** come, crowd, listen, sing

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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 (slender pike, Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:35:84
# text = The slender pike, the graceful salmon, nimble herrings, all kinds of finny creatures, came crowding to the shore to listen to the songs of Wainamoinen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	nimble	nimble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	herrings	herring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	finny	finny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	crowding	crowd	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the slender pike and the graceful salmon and nimble herrings |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crowd** | gerund | the slender pike and the graceful salmon and nimble herrings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the shore | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** | to-infinitive | the slender pike and the graceful salmon and nimble herrings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the songs of Wainamoinen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** |  | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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