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title: Forthwith, Iron leaped up, angry and biting and fierce. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Forthwith, Iron leaped up, angry and biting and fierce. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 115

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Forthwith, Iron leaped up, angry and biting and fierce.

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**What happens:** leap up, bite

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. 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:pg66819:5:115
# text = Forthwith, Iron leaped up, angry and biting and fierce.
1	Forthwith	forthwith	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Iron *compound* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bite** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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