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title: With finger-tips upon his lips he beckoned to the hero Ilmarinen and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With finger-tips upon his lips he beckoned to the hero Ilmarinen and to the young heroes who stood beside him. Who acts: Minstrel, young heroes. 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 2

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With finger-tips upon his lips he beckoned to the hero Ilmarinen and to the young heroes who stood beside him.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel, young heroes · **What happens:** beckon, stand · **To what, where:** hero

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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 (Minstrel, young heroes), 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:pg66819:36:2
# text = With finger-tips upon his lips he beckoned to the hero Ilmarinen and to the young heroes who stood beside him.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	beckoned	beckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beckon** | past | Minstrel |  | the hero |  |  | with finger tips; upon Minstrel's lips | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hero=Recipient |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the young heroes |  |  |  |  | beside Minstrel | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=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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