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title: And there, where the bears had trailed and the wolves had rushed and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And there, where the bears had trailed and the wolves had rushed and the deer had left their footprints, he found ruddy Iron, dusky Iron, yellow ore of Iron peeping, trembling, hiding. Who acts: bears, Smith, yellow ore. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 45

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And there, where the bears had trailed and the wolves had rushed and the deer had left their footprints, he found ruddy Iron, dusky Iron, yellow ore of Iron peeping, trembling, hiding.

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**Who acts:** bears, Smith, yellow ore · **What happens:** trail, rush, leave, find, peep, tremble · **To what, where:** wolves, deer, ruddy Iron

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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 (bears, Smith, yellow ore), 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:pg66819:5:45
# text = And there, where the bears had trailed and the wolves had rushed and the deer had left their footprints, he found ruddy Iron, dusky Iron, yellow ore of Iron peeping, trembling, hiding.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	trailed	trail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	footprints	footprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	ore	ore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trail** | past · perfect | the bears |  |  | there |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rush** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wolves |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 3 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | the deer |  |  |  | deer's footprints *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme footprint=Attribute |
| 4 | **find** | past | Smith | ruddy Iron and dusky Iron and yellow ore of Iron |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Topic |
| 5 | **peep** | gerund | yellow ore of Iron *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tremble** | gerund | yellow ore of Iron *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **hide** | gerund | yellow ore of Iron *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: 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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