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title: The eagle left her fledglings in her lofty eyry and came to listen t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The eagle left her fledglings in her lofty eyry and came to listen to the hero’s playing. Who acts: eagle, hero. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 77

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The eagle left her fledglings in her lofty eyry and came to listen to the hero’s playing.

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**Who acts:** eagle, hero · **What happens:** leave, come, listen, play · **To what, where:** fledglings, lofty eyry

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, hero), 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:pg66819:35:77
# text = The eagle left her fledglings in her lofty eyry and came to listen to the hero’s playing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fledglings	fledgling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eyry	eyry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	playing	playing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the eagle | eagle's fledglings |  | eagle's lofty eyry |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fledgling=Theme in eyry=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | the eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **listen** | to-infinitive | the eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the hero's playing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to playing=Theme |
| 4 | **play** |  | the hero |  |  |  |  |  | nom playing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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