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title: Then, leaving the smithy and all his tools in the silence of the for… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, leaving the smithy and all his tools in the silence of the forest, he followed the laborers to Pohyola, proud of his great performance, but pale and wan and wellnigh exhausted from long labor and ceaseless anxiety. Who acts: Mistress. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» b
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 49

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Then, leaving the smithy and all his tools in the silence of the forest, he followed the laborers to Pohyola, proud of his great performance, but pale and wan and wellnigh exhausted from long labor and ceaseless anxiety.

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**Who acts:** Mistress · **What happens:** leave, follow, exhaust, silence, perform · **To what, where:** smithy, laborers, Pohyola, long labor, forest

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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 (Mistress), 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:pg66819:11:49
# text = Then, leaving the smithy and all his tools in the silence of the forest, he followed the laborers to Pohyola, proud of his great performance, but pale and wan and wellnigh exhausted from long labor and ceaseless anxiety.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	laborers	laborer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	wan	wan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	wellnigh	wellnigh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
36	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	ceaseless	ceaseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund | Mistress *not said here* | the smithy and Mistress's tools in the silence of the forest |  |  | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smithy=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past | Mistress | the laborers |  | Pohyola |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent laborer=Theme to pohyola=Trajectory |
| 3 | **exhaust** | participle |  |  |  | long labor and ceaseless anxiety |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **silence** |  |  | the forest |  |  |  |  | nom silence «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **perform** |  | Mistress |  |  |  |  |  | nom performance «communication transitive»: 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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