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title: Fearfully screamed the fierce gyrfalcon, the transformed Wise Woman,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Fearfully screamed the fierce gyrfalcon, the transformed Wise Woman, as she answered, “No, I will not divide the Sampo with you. Who acts: Woman. 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 the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 47

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Fearfully screamed the fierce gyrfalcon, the transformed Wise Woman, as she answered, “No, I will not divide the Sampo with you.

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**Who acts:** Woman · **What happens:** scream, transform, answer, not divide · **To what, where:** fierce gyrfalcon, Sampo · **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 (Woman), 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:pg66819:38:47
# text = Fearfully screamed the fierce gyrfalcon, the transformed Wise Woman, as she answered, “No, I will not divide the Sampo with you.
1	Fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gyrfalcon	gyrfalcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	divide	divide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 |  | the fierce gyrfalcon |  |  |  | fearfully *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gyrfalcon=Topic |
| 2 | **transform** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Woman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **divide** *in a quote* | future | Woman | the Sampo |  |  |  | with you | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sampo=Patient with you=Instrument |

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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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