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title: Suddenly the sun was obscured and an ink-black shadow fell upon the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly the sun was obscured and an ink-black shadow fell upon the deck of the red ship—it fell upon the Sampo where it was bound with ropes to the bow beams. Who acts: black shadow, shadow. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 29

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Suddenly the sun was obscured and an ink-black shadow fell upon the deck of the red ship—it fell upon the Sampo where it was bound with ropes to the bow beams.

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**Who acts:** black shadow, shadow · **What happens:** obscure, fall, bind · **To what, where:** sun, deck, Sampo, shadow

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black shadow, shadow), 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:pg66819:38:29
# text = Suddenly the sun was obscured and an ink-black shadow fell upon the deck of the red ship—it fell upon the Sampo where it was bound with ropes to the bow beams.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	obscured	obscure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obscure** | past · passive |  | the sun |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | past | a black shadow |  |  | the deck of the red ship |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon deck=Location |
| 3 | **fall** | past | shadow |  |  | the Sampo |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon sampo=Location |
| 4 | **bind** | past · passive |  | shadow |  |  |  | with ropes; to the bow beams | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with rope=Co-Patient |

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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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