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title: Then with speed she betook herself shoreward, hiding her awful head… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then with speed she betook herself shoreward, hiding her awful head among the rushes, and there she lay until the music soothed her to deepest slumber. Who acts: Mistress, music. 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 90

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Then with speed she betook herself shoreward, hiding her awful head among the rushes, and there she lay until the music soothed her to deepest slumber.

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**Who acts:** Mistress, music · **What happens:** betake, hide, lie, soothe · **To what, where:** Mistress, awful head, rushes

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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 (Mistress, music), 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:pg66819:35:90
# text = Then with speed she betook herself shoreward, hiding her awful head among the rushes, and there she lay until the music soothed her to deepest slumber.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	betook	betake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	shoreward	shoreward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	soothed	soothe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betake** | past | Mistress | Mistress |  |  | then | with speed; shoreward *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund | Mistress *not said here* | Mistress's awful head |  | the rushes |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Patient among rush=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past | Mistress |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **soothe** | past | the music | Mistress |  |  |  | deepest slumber *xcomp* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=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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