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title: The seven stars of the Great Bear also heard; and they came circling… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The seven stars of the Great Bear also heard; and they came circling from the sky and began to dance and play amid the leaves and blossoms. Who acts: seven stars, stars. 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 pr
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 52

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The seven stars of the Great Bear also heard; and they came circling from the sky and began to dance and play amid the leaves and blossoms.

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**Who acts:** seven stars, stars · **What happens:** hear, come, circle, begin, dance, play · **To what, where:** sky, amid

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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 (seven stars, stars), 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:pg66819:6:52
# text = The seven stars of the Great Bear also heard; and they came circling from the sky and began to dance and play amid the leaves and blossoms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	circling	circle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	appos	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the seven stars of the Great Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | past | stars *= star* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **circle** | gerund | stars *= star* *not said here* |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | stars *= star* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **dance** | to-infinitive | stars *= star* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **play** | infinitive | stars *= star* *not said here* | amid |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amid=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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