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title: The heroes sprang up and shouted for joy; they had forgotten their f… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The heroes sprang up and shouted for joy; they had forgotten their fears. Who acts: heroes, fogs. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 153

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The heroes sprang up and shouted for joy; they had forgotten their fears.

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**Who acts:** heroes, fogs · **What happens:** spring up, shout, forget, fear · **To what, where:** fears

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroes, fogs), 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:pg66819:36:153
# text = The heroes sprang up and shouted for joy; they had forgotten their fears.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring up** | past | the heroes |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle | the heroes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for joy | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient |
| 3 | **forget** | past · perfect | fogs *= fog* | fogs's fears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fear** |  | fogs *= fog* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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