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title: The first day’s task was to build the furnace and the forge with yaw… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The first day’s task was to build the furnace and the forge with yawning mouth and towering chimney. Who acts: task, first day. 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 44

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The first day’s task was to build the furnace and the forge with yawning mouth and towering chimney.

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**Who acts:** task, first day · **What happens:** be, yawn, tower, task · **To what, where:** mouth, chimney

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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 (task, first day), 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:pg66819:10:44
# text = The first day’s task was to build the furnace and the forge with yawning mouth and towering chimney.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	forge	forge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	yawning	yawn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	towering	tower	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
19	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the first day's task |  |  |  |  | the furnace and the forge *obj*; build *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **yawn** | gerund | the first day's task *not said here* | mouth |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |
| 3 | **tower** | gerund | the first day's task *not said here* | chimney |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chimney=Theme |
| 4 | **task** |  | the first day |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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