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title: So, still followed by his serving-men, he set out to find a fit plac… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: So, still followed by his serving-men, he set out to find a fit place in which to build a smithy. Who acts: Ilmarinen. 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 40

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So, still followed by his serving-men, he set out to find a fit place in which to build a smithy.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** follow, set out, find, build · **To what, where:** fit place, smithy

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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), 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:pg66819:10:40
# text = So, still followed by his serving-men, he set out to find a fit place in which to build a smithy.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	serving	serving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	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** | participle |  |  |  |  | still | Ilmarinen's serving men *obl:agent* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set out** | past | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen *not said here* | a fit place |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 4 | **build** | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen *not said here* | a smithy |  | a fit place |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smithy=Product |

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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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