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title: Round as cranberries and large as the heads of swallows his tears fe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Round as cranberries and large as the heads of swallows his tears fell, chasing each other to the ground. Who acts: tears. 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 99

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Round as cranberries and large as the heads of swallows his tears fell, chasing each other to the ground.

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**Who acts:** tears · **What happens:** fall, chase · **To what, where:** swallows, each, ground

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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 (tears), 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:pg66819:35:99
# text = Round as cranberries and large as the heads of swallows his tears fell, chasing each other to the ground.
1	Round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	cranberries	cranberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	15	obj	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | heart's tears | swallows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient swallow=Result |
| 2 | **chase** | gerund | heart's tears *not said here* | each |  | the ground |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme to ground=Trajectory |

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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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