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title: As he spoke the last words he clapped his hands together and shouted… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: As he spoke the last words he clapped his hands together and shouted; and lo! the parts of the pine tree came suddenly into their right places, and it stood there as whole and as beautiful as it had been before the lightning smote it. Who acts: virtue, parts, part. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 107

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As he spoke the last words he clapped his hands together and shouted; and lo! the parts of the pine tree came suddenly into their right places, and it stood there as whole and as beautiful as it had been before the lightning smote it.

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**Who acts:** virtue, parts, part · **What happens:** speak, clap, shout, come, stand, be · **To what, where:** last words, hands, right places · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (virtue, parts, part), 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:pg66819:4:107
# text = As he spoke the last words he clapped his hands together and shouted; and lo! the parts of the pine tree came suddenly into their right places, and it stood there as whole and as beautiful as it had been before the lightning smote it.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
34	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	as	as	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj:outer	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
43	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	cop	_	_
44	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | virtue | the last words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **clap** | past | virtue | virtue's hands |  |  |  | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | virtue *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | the parts of the pine tree |  |  | hands's right places |  | suddenly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into place=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **stand** | past | part |  |  | there |  | as whole | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past · perfect | part |  |  |  |  | the lightning *nsubj*; smite *property* | tree rules |

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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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