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title: And lastly, of ten sharp scythes in the ship’s hold she formed talon… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And lastly, of ten sharp scythes in the ship’s hold she formed talons for herself, fierce, curved fingers, ending in needle-like claws, with which to fight her battles. Who acts: Mistress, curved fingers. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sam
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 19

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And lastly, of ten sharp scythes in the ship’s hold she formed talons for herself, fierce, curved fingers, ending in needle-like claws, with which to fight her battles.

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**Who acts:** Mistress, curved fingers · **What happens:** form, end, fight, hold, battle · **To what, where:** talons, like claws, battles, ship

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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 (Mistress, curved fingers), 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:pg66819:38:19
# text = And lastly, of ten sharp scythes in the ship’s hold she formed talons for herself, fierce, curved fingers, ending in needle-like claws, with which to fight her battles.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	lastly	lastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	scythes	scythe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	curved	curved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past | Mistress | talons |  |  |  | for Mistress | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent talon=Result for herself=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **end** | gerund | curved fingers *not said here* |  |  | like claws |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | curved fingers *not said here* | Mistress's battles |  |  |  | with like claws | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | the ship |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=patient |
| 6 | **battle** |  | Mistress |  |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act 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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