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title: Covered with wounds, the blood flowing from his arms, his head, his… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Covered with wounds, the blood flowing from his arms, his head, his heart, he felt his end approaching. Who acts: master, blood. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 63

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Covered with wounds, the blood flowing from his arms, his head, his heart, he felt his end approaching.

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**Who acts:** master, blood · **What happens:** cover, flow, feel, approach · **To what, where:** arms, end

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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 (master, blood), 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:pg66819:38:63
# text = Covered with wounds, the blood flowing from his arms, his head, his heart, he felt his end approaching.
1	Covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with wounds and the blood and master's head and master's heart | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wound=Theme |
| 2 | **flow** | gerund | the blood and master's head *not said here* |  |  | master's arms |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | past | master | master's end |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
| 4 | **approach** | gerund | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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