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title: He pulled it bodily from the caldron, writhing, creeping, struggling… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He pulled it bodily from the caldron, writhing, creeping, struggling, but unable to escape him. Who acts: Ilmarinen. 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 every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 37

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He pulled it bodily from the caldron, writhing, creeping, struggling, but unable to escape him.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** pull, creep, struggle, escape · **To what, where:** mixture, caldron, Ilmarinen

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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 (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:pg66819:11:37
# text = He pulled it bodily from the caldron, writhing, creeping, struggling, but unable to escape him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	bodily	bodily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	writhing	writhing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | past | Ilmarinen | mixture |  | the caldron and writhing |  | bodily *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from caldron=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **creep** | gerund | Ilmarinen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **struggle** | gerund | Ilmarinen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **escape** | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen *not said here* | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial\_Location |

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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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