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title: Wild with terror, he hurried on, hiding himself in the woods and und… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild with terror, he hurried on, hiding himself in the woods and under the roots of trees, and resting at last in reedy marshes where swans build their nests and wild geese rear their young. Who acts: Wild terror, swans, wild geese. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 30

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Wild with terror, he hurried on, hiding himself in the woods and under the roots of trees, and resting at last in reedy marshes where swans build their nests and wild geese rear their young.

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**Who acts:** Wild terror, swans, wild geese · **What happens:** hurry on, hide, rest, build, rear · **To what, where:** terror, woods, last, nests, young

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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: who acts (Wild terror, swans, wild geese), 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:pg66819:5:30
# text = Wild with terror, he hurried on, hiding himself in the woods and under the roots of trees, and resting at last in reedy marshes where swans build their nests and wild geese rear their young.
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	reedy	reedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
29	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	rear	rear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry on** | past | Wild terror |  |  |  |  | terror *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund | Wild terror *not said here* | terror |  | the woods and the roots of trees |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in wood=Location |
| 3 | **rest** | gerund | Wild terror *not said here* |  |  | last |  | in reedy marshes | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 4 | **build** | present | swans | swans's nests |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product |
| 5 | **rear** | present | wild geese | swans's young |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient |

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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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