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title: “O thou mighty eagle, come down from thy eyry on the heaven-high cli… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “O thou mighty eagle, come down from thy eyry on the heaven-high cliffs, and help us. Who acts: thou, mighty eagle. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 147

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“O thou mighty eagle, come down from thy eyry on the heaven-high cliffs, and help us.

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**Who acts:** thou, mighty eagle · **What happens:** eagle, come down, help · **To what, where:** eyry, us

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, mighty eagle), 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:pg66819:36:147
# text = “O thou mighty eagle, come down from thy eyry on the heaven-high cliffs, and help us.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyry	eyry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eagle** *in a quote* |  | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come down** *in a quote* | infinitive | mighty eagle |  |  | thy eyry |  | on the high cliffs; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from eyry=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | mighty eagle *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |

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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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