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title: The fire in the furnace was dead; the caldron was empty and void; th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The fire in the furnace was dead; the caldron was empty and void; the bellows was silent; the anvil of granite was idle. Who acts: fire, caldron, bellows, anvil. 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 pra
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 46

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The fire in the furnace was dead; the caldron was empty and void; the bellows was silent; the anvil of granite was idle.

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**Who acts:** fire, caldron, bellows, anvil · **What happens:** be

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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 (fire, caldron, bellows, anvil), 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:pg66819:11:46
# text = The fire in the furnace was dead; the caldron was empty and void; the bellows was silent; the anvil of granite was idle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	void	void	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bellows	bellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the fire in the furnace |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the caldron |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the caldron *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the bellows |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the anvil of granite |  |  |  |  | idle *property* | tree rules |

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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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