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title: Then he bade the serving-men blow the bellows with all their might,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he bade the serving-men blow the bellows with all their might, while he heaped fresh fuel upon the flames and sang wild songs of wizardry and enchantment. Who acts: Smith, serving men, wizardry. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its de
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 106

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Then he bade the serving-men blow the bellows with all their might, while he heaped fresh fuel upon the flames and sang wild songs of wizardry and enchantment.

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**Who acts:** Smith, serving men, wizardry · **What happens:** bade, blow, heap, sing · **To what, where:** bellows, fresh fuel, flames, wild songs

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith, serving men, wizardry), 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:pg66819:10:106
# text = Then he bade the serving-men blow the bellows with all their might, while he heaped fresh fuel upon the flames and sang wild songs of wizardry and enchantment.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	serving	serving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bellows	bellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	heaped	heap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	wizardry	wizardry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | Smith |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow** | present | the serving men | the bellows |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient |
| 3 | **heap** | past | Smith | fresh fuel |  | the flames |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme upon flame=Destination |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Smith *not said here* | wild songs of wizardry and enchantment |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 5 | **sing** |  | wizardry and enchantment |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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