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title: But above every other sound the hoarse cries of the dauntless Mistre… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But above every other sound the hoarse cries of the dauntless Mistress were heard, making the earth shudder and causing the deep sea to quake. Who acts: you, deep sea, dauntless Mistress. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its depe
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 59

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But above every other sound the hoarse cries of the dauntless Mistress were heard, making the earth shudder and causing the deep sea to quake.

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**Who acts:** you, deep sea, dauntless Mistress · **What happens:** sound, hear, make, cause, quake, cry · **To what, where:** hoarse cries, earth shudder, deep sea

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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 (you, deep sea, dauntless Mistress), 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:pg66819:38:59
# text = But above every other sound the hoarse cries of the dauntless Mistress were heard, making the earth shudder and causing the deep sea to quake.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	above	above	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sound	sound	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dauntless	dauntless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	quake	quake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the hoarse cries of the dauntless Mistress |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | gerund |  | the earth shudder |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shudder=Product |
| 4 | **cause** | gerund |  | the deep sea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **quake** | to-infinitive | the deep sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **cry** |  | the dauntless Mistress |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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