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title: Their sword-blades clanged against each other and glittered in the m… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Their sword-blades clanged against each other and glittered in the morning light, and their winged helmets were like golden birds of victory resting on their brows. Who acts: sword blades, winged helmets, victory. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid o
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 88

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Their sword-blades clanged against each other and glittered in the morning light, and their winged helmets were like golden birds of victory resting on their brows.

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**Who acts:** sword blades, winged helmets, victory · **What happens:** clang, glitter, wing, be, rest · **To what, where:** each, morning light, brows

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword blades, winged helmets, victory), 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:pg66819:19:88
# text = Their sword-blades clanged against each other and glittered in the morning light, and their winged helmets were like golden birds of victory resting on their brows.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	clanged	clang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	brows	brow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clang** | past | men's sword blades |  |  | each |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against each=Location |
| 2 | **glitter** | participle | men's sword blades *not said here* |  |  | the morning light |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |
| 3 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | men's winged helmets |  |  |  |  | like golden birds; of victory | tree rules |
| 5 | **rest** | gerund | victory *not said here* |  |  | men's brows |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brow=Location |

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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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