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title: Ilmarinen called to his ten serving-men and put the precious Sampo u… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Ilmarinen called to his ten serving-men and put the precious Sampo upon their shoulders. 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 47

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Ilmarinen called to his ten serving-men and put the precious Sampo upon their shoulders.

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**What happens:** call, put · **To what, where:** Ilmarinen, ten serving men, precious Sampo, shoulders · **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: 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:pg66819:11:47
# text = Ilmarinen called to his ten serving-men and put the precious Sampo upon their shoulders.
1	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	serving	serving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle · passive |  | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen's ten serving men |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to man=Recipient |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive |  | the precious Sampo |  | men's shoulders |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sampo=Theme upon shoulder=Destination |

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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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