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title: And there, on clear summer nights, you may often see her pecking at… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And there, on clear summer nights, you may often see her pecking at the stars and scarring the sky with her scythe-like talons. Who acts: you, 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 107

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And there, on clear summer nights, you may often see her pecking at the stars and scarring the sky with her scythe-like talons.

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**Who acts:** you, bird · **What happens:** see, peck, scar · **To what, where:** bird, sky

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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 (you, 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:pg66819:25:107
# text = And there, on clear summer nights, you may often see her pecking at the stars and scarring the sky with her scythe-like talons.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	pecking	peck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	scarring	scar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
24	scythe	scythe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | may | you | bird |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **peck** | gerund | bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the stars | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at star=Patient |
| 3 | **scar** | gerund | bird *not said here* | the sky |  |  |  | with bird's like talons | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent sky=Destination with talon=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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