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title: Iron moved not, but timidly answered, “I dare not leave my hiding-pl… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Iron moved not, but timidly answered, “I dare not leave my hiding-places; for Fire, my brother, waits to devour me. Who acts: Iron, I, Fire. 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 50

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Iron moved not, but timidly answered, “I dare not leave my hiding-places; for Fire, my brother, waits to devour me.

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**Who acts:** Iron, I, Fire · **What happens:** not move, answer, leave, wait, devour · **To what, where:** hiding places, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Iron, I, Fire), 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:pg66819:5:50
# text = Iron moved not, but timidly answered, “I dare not leave my hiding-places; for Fire, my brother, waits to devour me.
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	timidly	timidly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	dare	dare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **move** | past | Iron |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | timidly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | present | I | my hiding places |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** *in a quote* | present | Fire and my brother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **devour** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Fire and my brother *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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