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title: The water nymphs, also, cousins of the reeds that grow in the still… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The water nymphs, also, cousins of the reeds that grow in the still waters between the hills, they heard the sweet music and were enraptured by it. Who acts: reeds, water nymphs. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tre
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 87

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The water nymphs, also, cousins of the reeds that grow in the still waters between the hills, they heard the sweet music and were enraptured by it.

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**Who acts:** reeds, water nymphs · **What happens:** grow, water, hear, enrapture · **To what, where:** sweet music

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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 (reeds, water nymphs), 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:pg66819:35:87
# text = The water nymphs, also, cousins of the reeds that grow in the still waters between the hills, they heard the sweet music and were enraptured by it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	waters	water	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	enraptured	enrapture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | the reeds |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **water** | present | the reeds *not said here* |  |  |  | still | between the hills | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past | the water nymphs and cousins of the reeds | the sweet music |  |  |  | nymphs *= nymph* *nsubj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus |
| 4 | **enrapture** | past · passive | the water nymphs and cousins of the reeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by music | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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