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description: Dismayed by the ruin she had caused, the fierce gyrfalcon, the determined Wise One, ceased her destroying work and looked around her. 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 e
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 80

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Dismayed by the ruin she had caused, the fierce gyrfalcon, the determined Wise One, ceased her destroying work and looked around her.

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**Who acts:** Pohyola · **What happens:** dismay, cause, cease, destroy, look · **To what, where:** fierce gyrfalcon, Pohyola, work

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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:pg66819:38:80
# text = Dismayed by the ruin she had caused, the fierce gyrfalcon, the determined Wise One, ceased her destroying work and looked around her.
1	Dismayed	dismay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gyrfalcon	gyrfalcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Wise	Wise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	around	around	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dismay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the ruin | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **cause** | past · perfect | Pohyola | the fierce gyrfalcon |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition gyrfalcon=Patient |
| 3 | **cease** | past |  | Pohyola |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality she=Eventuality |
| 4 | **destroy** | gerund |  | work |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient |
| 5 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | around Pohyola | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around she=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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