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title: Then he leaped nimbly down upon the deck as though content to see no… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he leaped nimbly down upon the deck as though content to see no more. Who acts: Wainamoinen. 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 49

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Then he leaped nimbly down upon the deck as though content to see no more.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen · **What happens:** leap, see · **To what, where:** deck, more

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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 (Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:37:49
# text = Then he leaped nimbly down upon the deck as though content to see no more.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	11	cc	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | past | Wainamoinen |  |  | the deck | then | content *conj*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon deck=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |

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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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