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title: When at length he approached his father’s cottage he heard loud groa… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: When at length he approached his father’s cottage he heard loud groans within—groans of some one suffering deadly pain. Who acts: pot, suffering deadly pain. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 113

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When at length he approached his father’s cottage he heard loud groans within—groans of some one suffering deadly pain.

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**Who acts:** pot, suffering deadly pain · **What happens:** approach, hear, groan · **To what, where:** cottage, length, loud groans

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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 (pot, suffering deadly pain), 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:pg66819:4:113
# text = When at length he approached his father’s cottage he heard loud groans within—groans of some one suffering deadly pain.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	groans	groan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	groans	groan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	suffering	suffering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | pot | pot's father's cottage |  | length |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | pot | loud groans |  |  |  | within groans of some suffering deadly pain | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer groan=Stimulus |
| 3 | **groan** |  | some suffering deadly pain |  |  |  |  |  | nom groan «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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