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title: With her maimed and useless feet she struck it, and with her one cro… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With her maimed and useless feet she struck it, and with her one crooked, indescribable finger she grasped it. Who acts: Pohyola. 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 76

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With her maimed and useless feet she struck it, and with her one crooked, indescribable finger she grasped it.

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**Who acts:** Pohyola · **What happens:** maim, strike, grasp · **To what, where:** 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 (Pohyola), 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:pg66819:38:76
# text = With her maimed and useless feet she struck it, and with her one crooked, indescribable finger she grasped it.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	maimed	maim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
15	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	indescribable	indescribable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	grasped	grasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maim** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **strike** | past | Pohyola | Sampo |  |  |  | with Pohyola's maimed feet | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with foot=Instrument |
| 3 | **grasp** | past | Pohyola | Sampo |  |  |  | with Pohyola's one crooked indescribable finger | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=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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