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title: With a voice like that of a tempest she screamed to her warriors who… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With a voice like that of a tempest she screamed to her warriors who were clinging to the remains of the wreck: “Make yourselves very small! Who acts: Mistress, warriors. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 20

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With a voice like that of a tempest she screamed to her warriors who were clinging to the remains of the wreck: “Make yourselves very small!

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**Who acts:** Mistress, warriors · **What happens:** scream, cling, make · **To what, where:** tempest, warriors · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, warriors), 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:pg66819:38:20
# text = With a voice like that of a tempest she screamed to her warriors who were clinging to the remains of the wreck: “Make yourselves very small!
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	clinging	cling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wreck	wreck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | Mistress | a tempest *not said here* | Mistress's warriors |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tempest=Topic to warrior=Recipient |
| 2 | **cling** | past · progressive | Mistress's warriors |  |  |  |  | to the remains of the wreck | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to remains=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mistress's warriors *not said here* | Mistress's warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourselves=Product |

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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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