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description: With a screech that thrilled the sea to its very bottom and made the great iceberg tremble and totter, the mighty bird extended her wings and soared aloft. Who acts: screech, mighty bird. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its depe
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 23

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With a screech that thrilled the sea to its very bottom and made the great iceberg tremble and totter, the mighty bird extended her wings and soared aloft.

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**Who acts:** screech, mighty bird · **What happens:** thrill, make, extend, soar · **To what, where:** sea, great iceberg tremble, wings

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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 (screech, mighty bird), 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:pg66819:38:23
# text = With a screech that thrilled the sea to its very bottom and made the great iceberg tremble and totter, the mighty bird extended her wings and soared aloft.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	screech	screech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thrilled	thrill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	iceberg	iceberg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tremble	tremble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	totter	totter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	extended	extend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	soared	soar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thrill** | past | a screech | the sea |  |  |  | to sea's bottom | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sea=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | past | a screech *not said here* | the great iceberg tremble and totter |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tremble=Product |
| 3 | **extend** | past | the mighty bird | Mistress's wings |  |  |  | with a screech | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wing=Theme |
| 4 | **soar** | past | the mighty bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aloft *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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