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title: Ten men, willing and strong, followed him, prepared to do any sort o… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Ten men, willing and strong, followed him, prepared to do any sort of labor, to undergo any sort of privation. 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 every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 34

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Ten men, willing and strong, followed him, prepared to do any sort of labor, to undergo any sort of privation.

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**What happens:** follow, prepare, do, undergo, sort · **To what, where:** Ilmarinen, sort, labor, privation

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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: 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:pg66819:10:34
# text = Ten men, willing and strong, followed him, prepared to do any sort of labor, to undergo any sort of privation.
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	undergo	undergo	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	privation	privation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past |  | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **prepare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | any sort of labor |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Eventuality |
| 4 | **undergo** | to-infinitive |  | any sort of privation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | labor |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **sort** |  |  | privation |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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