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title: Then suddenly, from among the poplars, came well-remembered sounds—t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then suddenly, from among the poplars, came well-remembered sounds—the sound of a hammer, cling-clanging upon an anvil, and the melodious tones of a manly voice singing in unison therewith. Who acts: poplars, sound, melodious tones. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 10

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Then suddenly, from among the poplars, came well-remembered sounds—the sound of a hammer, cling-clanging upon an anvil, and the melodious tones of a manly voice singing in unison therewith.

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**Who acts:** poplars, sound, melodious tones · **What happens:** come, remember, clang, sing, intonate · **To what, where:** remembered sounds, anvil, unison, manly voice

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poplars, sound, melodious tones), 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:pg66819:7:10
# text = Then suddenly, from among the poplars, came well-remembered sounds—the sound of a hammer, cling-clanging upon an anvil, and the melodious tones of a manly voice singing in unison therewith.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poplars	poplar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	cling	cling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	clanging	clang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	melodious	melodious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	parataxis	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	manly	manly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	unison	unison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the poplars | remembered sounds and the sound of a hammer  the melodious tones of a manly voice |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme |
| 2 | **remember** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **clang** | gerund | the sound of a hammer  the melodious tones of a manly voice *not said here* |  |  | a anvil |  | cling *compound* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon anvil=Location |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the melodious tones of a manly voice *not said here* |  |  | unison |  | therewith *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in unison=Location |
| 5 | **intonate** |  |  | a manly voice |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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