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title: Of the long rudder she fashioned a tail, flat and broad, with quill-… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the long rudder she fashioned a tail, flat and broad, with quill-like feathers overlapping each other as do the boards on the roof of a house. Who acts: like feathers, other as. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 16

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Of the long rudder she fashioned a tail, flat and broad, with quill-like feathers overlapping each other as do the boards on the roof of a house.

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**Who acts:** like feathers, other as · **What happens:** overlap, do · **To what, where:** boards, roof

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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 (like feathers, other as), 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:pg66819:38:16
# text = Of the long rudder she fashioned a tail, flat and broad, with quill-like feathers overlapping each other as do the boards on the roof of a house.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rudder	rudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	quill	quill	NOUN	NN	_	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
19	overlapping	overlap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	as	a	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overlap** | gerund | like feathers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | each other as | the boards |  | the roof of a house |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Eventuality |

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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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