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title: And Ilmarinen sat in their midst and told them many tales of wonder,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ilmarinen sat in their midst and told them many tales of wonder, chiefly tales of his own rare skill and cunning. Who acts: Ilmarinen, wonder, own rare skill. 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 e
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 8

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And Ilmarinen sat in their midst and told them many tales of wonder, chiefly tales of his own rare skill and cunning.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, wonder, own rare skill · **What happens:** sit, tell · **To what, where:** midst, many tales, Herdsmen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, wonder, own rare skill), 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:pg66819:10:8
# text = And Ilmarinen sat in their midst and told them many tales of wonder, chiefly tales of his own rare skill and cunning.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	chiefly	chiefly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Ilmarinen |  |  | Herdsmen's midst |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Ilmarinen *not said here* | many tales of wonder and chiefly tales of Ilmarinen's own rare skill and cunning | Herdsmen *= herdsman* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tale=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** |  | wonder |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **tell** |  | Ilmarinen's own rare skill and cunning |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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