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title: Thus, all through the wintry weather, Ilmarinen dispensed wisdom to… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, all through the wintry weather, Ilmarinen dispensed wisdom to the inquiring men who desired it, and there was no question which he could not answer, no want which he could not satisfy. Who acts: Ilmarinen, inquiring men. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwi
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 28

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Thus, all through the wintry weather, Ilmarinen dispensed wisdom to the inquiring men who desired it, and there was no question which he could not answer, no want which he could not satisfy.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, inquiring men · **What happens:** dispense, inquire, desire, be, not answer, not satisfy · **To what, where:** wisdom, wintry weather, question, want

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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 (Ilmarinen, inquiring men), 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:pg66819:10:28
# text = Thus, all through the wintry weather, Ilmarinen dispensed wisdom to the inquiring men who desired it, and there was no question which he could not answer, no want which he could not satisfy.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wintry	wintry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dispensed	dispense	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	csubj	_	_
11	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	inquiring	inquire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dispense** | past | Ilmarinen | wisdom |  | the wintry weather |  | to the inquiring men; all, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **desire** | past | the inquiring men | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | no question |  |  |  | no want *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | could | Ilmarinen | no question |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 6 | **not** **satisfy** | could | Ilmarinen | no want |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer |

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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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