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title: Long did he seek, and far and wide did he travel, and many were the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Long did he seek, and far and wide did he travel, and many were the vain inquiries which he made; but nowhere in all the Frozen Land could he discover forge or chimney, bellows or tongs, anvil or hammer. Who acts: Ilmarinen, many vain inquiries. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old Nor
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 35

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Long did he seek, and far and wide did he travel, and many were the vain inquiries which he made; but nowhere in all the Frozen Land could he discover forge or chimney, bellows or tongs, anvil or hammer.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, many vain inquiries · **What happens:** seek, travel, be, make, discover · **To what, where:** many vain inquiries, forge, Frozen Land

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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, many vain inquiries), 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:pg66819:10:35
# text = Long did he seek, and far and wide did he travel, and many were the vain inquiries which he made; but nowhere in all the Frozen Land could he discover forge or chimney, bellows or tongs, anvil or hammer.
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
34	forge	forge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	bellows	bellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	tongs	tong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past · do-support | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  | far, long *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **travel** | past · do-support | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the many vain inquiries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past | the many vain inquiries |  |  |  |  | Ilmarinen *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **discover** | could | Ilmarinen | forge or chimney and bellows or tongs and anvil or hammer |  | all Frozen Land |  | nowhere *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forge=Topic |

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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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