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title: Feebly, she soared upward, she turned her flaming eyes toward Pohyol… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Feebly, she soared upward, she turned her flaming eyes toward Pohyola, and with laboring wings made her way slowly across the sea. Who acts: Jumala. 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
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 86

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Feebly, she soared upward, she turned her flaming eyes toward Pohyola, and with laboring wings made her way slowly across the sea.

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**Who acts:** Jumala · **What happens:** soar, turn, labor, make · **To what, where:** flaming eyes, Pohyola, Jumala, sea

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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 (Jumala), 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:pg66819:38:86
# text = Feebly, she soared upward, she turned her flaming eyes toward Pohyola, and with laboring wings made her way slowly across the sea.
1	Feebly	feebly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	soared	soar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	laboring	labor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	across	across	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soar** | past | Jumala |  |  |  |  | feebly, upward *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Jumala | Jumala's flaming eyes |  | Pohyola |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme toward pohyola=Trajectory |
| 3 | **labor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | Jumala *not said here* | Jumala |  | the sea |  | with laboring wings; way *obl:unmarked*; slowly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |

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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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