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title: Loudly the birchwood runners rang upon the frozen ground, smoothly t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Loudly the birchwood runners rang upon the frozen ground, smoothly they sped over the hoarfrost and the glistening ice. Who acts: birchwood runners, runners. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 18

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Loudly the birchwood runners rang upon the frozen ground, smoothly they sped over the hoarfrost and the glistening ice.

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**Who acts:** birchwood runners, runners · **What happens:** ring, freeze, speed, glisten · **To what, where:** frozen ground, hoarfrost

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birchwood runners, runners), 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:pg66819:6:18
# text = Loudly the birchwood runners rang upon the frozen ground, smoothly they sped over the hoarfrost and the glistening ice.
1	Loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	birchwood	birchwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hoarfrost	hoarfrost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | past | the birchwood runners |  |  | the frozen ground |  | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location |
| 2 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **speed** | past | runners *= runner* |  |  | the hoarfrost and the glistening ice |  | smoothly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hoarfrost=Trajectory |
| 4 | **glisten** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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