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title: Lazy bears went ambling through the rocky places; wolves rushed madl… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Lazy bears went ambling through the rocky places; wolves rushed madly over the oozy marshlands; and timid deer ran and leaped among the trees. Who acts: Lazy bears, wolves, timid deer. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet, with its dependency 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 33

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Lazy bears went ambling through the rocky places; wolves rushed madly over the oozy marshlands; and timid deer ran and leaped among the trees.

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**Who acts:** Lazy bears, wolves, timid deer · **What happens:** go, amble, rush, run, leap · **To what, where:** rocky places, oozy marshlands

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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 (Lazy bears, wolves, timid deer), 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:pg66819:5:33
# text = Lazy bears went ambling through the rocky places; wolves rushed madly over the oozy marshlands; and timid deer ran and leaped among the trees.
1	Lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ambling	amble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	madly	madly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	oozy	oozy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	marshlands	marshland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Lazy bears |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **amble** | gerund | Lazy bears *not said here* |  |  | the rocky places |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through place=Trajectory |
| 3 | **rush** | past | wolves |  |  | the oozy marshlands |  | madly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over marshland=Trajectory |
| 4 | **run** | past | timid deer |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **leap** | participle | timid deer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the trees *obl:agent* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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