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title: Failing in this, she screamed a second time, and from her wings the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Failing in this, she screamed a second time, and from her wings the swordsmen leaped down. 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 clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 50

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Failing in this, she screamed a second time, and from her wings the swordsmen leaped down.

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**Who acts:** Woman · **What happens:** fail, scream, leap down · **To what, where:** this, wings, swordsmen

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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:pg66819:38:50
# text = Failing in this, she screamed a second time, and from her wings the swordsmen leaped down.
1	Failing	fail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	swordsmen	swordsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | gerund | Woman *not said here* |  |  | this |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | Woman |  |  | Woman's wings  the swordsmen | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leap down** | participle |  | the swordsmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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