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title: Forthwith he flew to the thorny thickets and the miry bogs and the f… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Forthwith he flew to the thorny thickets and the miry bogs and the fever-breeding marshes, to gather what evils he might. Who acts: Smith. 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 92

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Forthwith he flew to the thorny thickets and the miry bogs and the fever-breeding marshes, to gather what evils he might.

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**Who acts:** Smith · **What happens:** fly, gather

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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 (Smith), 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:pg66819:5:92
# text = Forthwith he flew to the thorny thickets and the miry bogs and the fever-breeding marshes, to gather what evils he might.
1	Forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	miry	miry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bogs	bog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
22	evils	evil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | Smith |  |  |  |  | to the thorny thickets and the miry bogs and the breeding marshes *result*; forthwith *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to thicket=Result |
| 2 | **gather** | to-infinitive | Smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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