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title: He struck with all his might the extended talons, the crooked finger… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He struck with all his might the extended talons, the crooked fingers, the horrid feet of the relentless gyrfalcon. Who acts: Dreadful. 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 53

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He struck with all his might the extended talons, the crooked fingers, the horrid feet of the relentless gyrfalcon.

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**Who acts:** Dreadful · **What happens:** strike

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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 (Dreadful), 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:pg66819:38:53
# text = He struck with all his might the extended talons, the crooked fingers, the horrid feet of the relentless gyrfalcon.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	relentless	relentless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gyrfalcon	gyrfalcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | Dreadful |  |  |  |  | with Dreadful's extended talons | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with talon=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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