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title: The wizard workman forged it with infinite skill and patience, for w… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The wizard workman forged it with infinite skill and patience, for well he knew that one false stroke would undo all his labor, would be fatal to all his hopes. Who acts: wizard workman, workman, one false stroke, labor. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 42

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The wizard workman forged it with infinite skill and patience, for well he knew that one false stroke would undo all his labor, would be fatal to all his hopes.

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**Who acts:** wizard workman, workman, one false stroke, labor · **What happens:** forge, know, undo, be, hope · **To what, where:** part, labor · **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 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 (wizard workman, workman, one false stroke, labor), 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:pg66819:11:42
# text = The wizard workman forged it with infinite skill and patience, for well he knew that one false stroke would undo all his labor, would be fatal to all his hopes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	workman	workman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	forged	forge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	infinite	infinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	undo	undo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forge** | past | the wizard workman | part |  |  |  | with infinite skill and patience | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 2 | **know** | past | workman |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **undo** | would | one false stroke | workman's labor |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labor=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | would | workman's labor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to workman's hopes; fatal *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hope** |  | workman |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: 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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