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title: Colors of the rainbow, forms and figures without number, precious me… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Colors of the rainbow, forms and figures without number, precious metals, floating vapors—all these were mingled in the caldron. Who acts: Colors. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 34

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Colors of the rainbow, forms and figures without number, precious metals, floating vapors—all these were mingled in the caldron.

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**Who acts:** Colors · **What happens:** float, mingle · **To what, where:** these, caldron, Colors

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Colors), 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:pg66819:11:34
# text = Colors of the rainbow, forms and figures without number, precious metals, floating vapors—all these were mingled in the caldron.
1	Colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	vapors	vapor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
19	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mingle** | past · passive | Colors of the rainbow and forms without number and figures and precious metals and floating vapors *not said here* | these |  | the caldron |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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