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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 81

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Slowly, as in pain, she spread her wings and rose from the crimson deck all strewn with fragments; but, as she leaped high into the air, she seized with her one indescribable finger a single small, three-cornered piece of the precious Sampo; with the strength of despair she clutched it within her crooked claw.

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**Who acts:** Pohyola · **What happens:** spread, rise, leap, seize, corner, clutch · **To what, where:** wings, pain, crimson deck, air, single small cornered piece, piece

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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:pg66819:38:81
# text = Slowly, as in pain, she spread her wings and rose from the crimson deck all strewn with fragments; but, as she leaped high into the air, she seized with her one indescribable finger a single small, three-cornered piece of the precious Sampo; with the strength of despair she clutched it within her crooked claw.
1	Slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	crimson	crimson	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
27	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
37	indescribable	indescribable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
40	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
41	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	cornered	corner	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
57	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	clutched	clutch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	within	within	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
61	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
62	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | Pohyola | Pohyola's wings |  | pain |  | slowly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Theme in pain=Destination |
| 2 | **rise** | past | Pohyola *not said here* |  |  | the crimson deck |  | strewn *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from deck=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **leap** | past | Pohyola |  |  | the air |  | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination |
| 4 | **seize** | past | Pohyola | a single small cornered piece of the precious Sampo |  |  |  | with Pohyola's one indescribable finger | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 5 | **corner** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | three *compound* | tree rules |
| 6 | **clutch** | past | Pohyola | piece |  |  |  | with the strength of despair; within Pohyola's crooked claw | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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