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title: “I caught them and fixed them securely in their places; I welded the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I caught them and fixed them securely in their places; I welded them into the vast sky-lid so they should never fall out nor fly away.” Who acts: sparks, stars. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 18

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“I caught them and fixed them securely in their places; I welded them into the vast sky-lid so they should never fall out nor fly away.”

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**Who acts:** sparks, stars · **What happens:** catch, fix, weld, not fall out, fly away · **To what, where:** stars, places

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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 (sparks, stars), 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:pg66819:10:18
# text = “I caught them and fixed them securely in their places; I welded them into the vast sky-lid so they should never fall out nor fly away.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	securely	securely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	welded	weld	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
29	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	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 | **catch** *in a quote* | past | the sparks *= spark* | stars *= star* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **fix** *in a quote* | past | the sparks *= spark* *not said here* | stars *= star* |  | stars's places |  | securely *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **weld** *in a quote* | past | the sparks *= spark* | stars *= star* |  |  |  | into the vast sky lid | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient into lid=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **not** **fall out** *in a quote* | should | stars *= star* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fly away** *in a quote* | infinitive | stars *= star* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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