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title: White whales from the icy seas, savage sharks, and squirming eels sw… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: White whales from the icy seas, savage sharks, and squirming eels swam side by side and trembled with emotion. Who acts: White whales. 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 85

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White whales from the icy seas, savage sharks, and squirming eels swam side by side and trembled with emotion.

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**Who acts:** White whales · **What happens:** squirm, swim, tremble · **To what, where:** side

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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 (White whales), 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:pg66819:35:85
# text = White whales from the icy seas, savage sharks, and squirming eels swam side by side and trembled with emotion.
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	squirming	squirm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	emotion	emotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squirm** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **swim** | past | White whales from the icy seas and savage sharks | side |  |  |  | by side; squirming eels *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Trajectory |
| 3 | **tremble** | participle | White whales from the icy seas and savage sharks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with emotion | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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