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title: In its original form it was related, not in plain, unvarnished prose… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: In its original form it was related, not in plain, unvarnished prose, as you shall find it here, but in endless monotonous measures, tuned to the music of the kantele. Who acts: TALE, you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening, with its dependency tree a
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 8

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In its original form it was related, not in plain, unvarnished prose, as you shall find it here, but in endless monotonous measures, tuned to the music of the kantele.

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**Who acts:** TALE, you · **What happens:** be, find, tune, form · **To what, where:** original form, TALE, endless monotonous measures

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TALE, you), 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:pg66819:1:8
# text = In its original form it was related, not in plain, unvarnished prose, as you shall find it here, but in endless monotonous measures, tuned to the music of the kantele.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	unvarnished	unvarnished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	monotonous	monotonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	tuned	tune	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	kantele	kantele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | TALE |  |  | TALE's original form |  | in plain unvarnished prose; related *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | shall | you | TALE |  | endless monotonous measures; here |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **tune** | participle |  | endless monotonous measures *not said here* |  |  |  | to the music of the kantele | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** |  | TALE |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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