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title: He ceased; and instantly in the centre of the green space a slender… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He ceased; and instantly in the centre of the green space a slender twig sprang out of the ground and grew. Who acts: Minstrel, slender twig. 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 every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 45

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He ceased; and instantly in the centre of the green space a slender twig sprang out of the ground and grew.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel, slender twig · **What happens:** cease, spring out, grow · **To what, where:** centre, ground

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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 (Minstrel, slender twig), 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:pg66819:6:45
# text = He ceased; and instantly in the centre of the green space a slender twig sprang out of the ground and grew.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past | Minstrel |  |  | the centre of the green space |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **spring out** | past | a slender twig | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location ground=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | Minstrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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