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title: As a giant pine, when rent by the storm, falls crashing from the mou… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: As a giant pine, when rent by the storm, falls crashing from the mountain top and is swallowed in the bottomless gorge below, so fell the hero. 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 clau
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 71

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As a giant pine, when rent by the storm, falls crashing from the mountain top and is swallowed in the bottomless gorge below, so fell the hero.

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**What happens:** rend, fall, crash, swallow · **To what, where:** mountain top, bottomless gorge, hero

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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: 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:pg66819:38:71
# text = As a giant pine, when rent by the storm, falls crashing from the mountain top and is swallowed in the bottomless gorge below, so fell the hero.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	rent	rend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	crashing	crash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	bottomless	bottomless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gorge	gorge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	below	below	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the storm | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as a giant pine | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **crash** | gerund |  |  |  | the mountain top |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **swallow** | present · passive |  |  |  | the bottomless gorge |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **fall** | past |  | the hero |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hero=Result |

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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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