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title: Forthwith the red stream grew smaller; but still the drops trickled… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Forthwith the red stream grew smaller; but still the drops trickled from the wound. Who acts: Forthwith red stream, drops. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 63

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Forthwith the red stream grew smaller; but still the drops trickled from the wound.

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**Who acts:** Forthwith red stream, drops · **What happens:** grow, trickle · **To what, where:** wound

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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 (Forthwith red stream, drops), 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:pg66819:4:63
# text = Forthwith the red stream grew smaller; but still the drops trickled from the wound.
1	Forthwith	forthwith	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	trickled	trickle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the Forthwith red stream |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **trickle** | past | the drops |  |  | the wound | still |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from wound=Source |

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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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