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title: And all the creatures, all the people, were spellbound and motionles… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the creatures, all the people, were spellbound and motionless because of the great joy and comfort and wonder that had come upon them. Who acts: wonder. 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 pragmati
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 92

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And all the creatures, all the people, were spellbound and motionless because of the great joy and comfort and wonder that had come upon them.

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**Who acts:** wonder · **What happens:** spellbind, come · **To what, where:** creatures

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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 (wonder), 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:pg66819:35:92
# text = And all the creatures, all the people, were spellbound and motionless because of the great joy and comfort and wonder that had come upon them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	spellbound	spellbind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spellbind** | past · passive |  | all creatures |  |  |  | because the great joy and comfort and wonder | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | wonder |  |  |  |  | upon creatures *= creature* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |

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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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