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title: One by one the heroes fell; and by fives and tens the low-browed war… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: One by one the heroes fell; and by fives and tens the low-browed warriors of Pohyola were thrust overboard to perish in the waves. Who acts: One, browed warriors. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 60

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One by one the heroes fell; and by fives and tens the low-browed warriors of Pohyola were thrust overboard to perish in the waves.

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**Who acts:** One, browed warriors · **What happens:** fall, brow, be, perish · **To what, where:** thrust, waves

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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 (One, browed warriors), 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:pg66819:38:60
# text = One by one the heroes fell; and by fives and tens the low-browed warriors of Pohyola were thrust overboard to perish in the waves.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fives	fives	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	browed	brow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	_
22	overboard	overboard	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | One by one |  |  |  |  | the heroes *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **brow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the browed warriors of Pohyola | thrust |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **perish** | to-infinitive | One by one *not said here* |  |  | the waves |  | by fives and tens; overboard *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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