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title: So he stretched his long, cold fingers over the land, and everything… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: So he stretched his long, cold fingers over the land, and everything that he touched was frozen and blasted. Who acts: spirit. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 4

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So he stretched his long, cold fingers over the land, and everything that he touched was frozen and blasted.

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**Who acts:** spirit · **What happens:** stretch, touch, freeze, blast · **To what, where:** long cold fingers, land, everything

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit), 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:pg66819:37:4
# text = So he stretched his long, cold fingers over the land, and everything that he touched was frozen and blasted.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	blasted	blast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past | spirit | spirit's long cold fingers |  | the land |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
| 2 | **touch** | past | spirit |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **freeze** | past · passive |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **blast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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