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title: There, folding her fiery pinions, she alighted, content to make her… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: There, folding her fiery pinions, she alighted, content to make her home on that changeable orb. Who acts: bird. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 106

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There, folding her fiery pinions, she alighted, content to make her home on that changeable orb.

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**Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** fold, alight, make · **To what, where:** fiery pinions, content, home, changeable orb

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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:pg66819:25:106
# text = There, folding her fiery pinions, she alighted, content to make her home on that changeable orb.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	folding	fold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj:pass	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pinions	pinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	changeable	changeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	orb	orb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fold** | gerund |  | bird's fiery pinions |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pinion=Patient |
| 2 | **alight** | participle | bird | content |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | bird *not said here* | bird's home |  | that changeable orb |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product |

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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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