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title: Suddenly, in the midst of the mêlée, the mighty bird of prey, even t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly, in the midst of the mêlée, the mighty bird of prey, even the transformed Mistress of Pohyola, leaped down from her lofty perch, and sweeping across the vessel’s bows sought to carry away the Sampo. Who acts: sweeping. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldw
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 75

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Suddenly, in the midst of the mêlée, the mighty bird of prey, even the transformed Mistress of Pohyola, leaped down from her lofty perch, and sweeping across the vessel’s bows sought to carry away the Sampo.

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**Who acts:** sweeping · **What happens:** transform, leap down, sweep, seek, carry away · **To what, where:** lofty perch, bows, midst, Sampo

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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 (sweeping), 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:pg66819:38:75
# text = Suddenly, in the midst of the mêlée, the mighty bird of prey, even the transformed Mistress of Pohyola, leaped down from her lofty perch, and sweeping across the vessel’s bows sought to carry away the Sampo.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mêlée	mêlée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	perch	perch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	csubj	_	_
32	across	across	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	bows	bows	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	away	away	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transform** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **leap down** | participle | sweeping *not said here* |  |  | Pohyola's lofty perch |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from perch=Trajectory |
| 3 | **sweep** | gerund |  |  |  | the vessel's bows |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across bows=Trajectory |
| 4 | **seek** | past | sweeping |  |  | the midst of the mêlée and the transformed Mistress of Pohyola |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sweeping *not said here* | the Sampo |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=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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