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title: With one foot in the sea and the other firmly placed in the rift of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With one foot in the sea and the other firmly placed in the rift of the icy barrier, she quickly changed her form into that of a monstrous gyrfalcon, the fiercest, the most untiring of birds of prey. Who acts: other, Mistress. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwi
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 14

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With one foot in the sea and the other firmly placed in the rift of the icy barrier, she quickly changed her form into that of a monstrous gyrfalcon, the fiercest, the most untiring of birds of prey.

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**Who acts:** other, Mistress · **What happens:** place, change, form · **To what, where:** rift, form, that, untiring

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, Mistress), 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:pg66819:38:14
# text = With one foot in the sea and the other firmly placed in the rift of the icy barrier, she quickly changed her form into that of a monstrous gyrfalcon, the fiercest, the most untiring of birds of prey.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
10	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rift	rift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	barrier	barrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	gyrfalcon	gyrfalcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	37	advmod	_	_
37	untiring	untiring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | participle | the other |  |  | the rift of the icy barrier |  | firmly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in rift=Destination |
| 2 | **change** | past | Mistress | Mistress's form |  | that of a monstrous gyrfalcon |  | with one foot in the sea; quickly *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent form=Theme with foot=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **form** |  | Mistress |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: 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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