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title: “In all the world there is no other wizard that could have formed it… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “In all the world there is no other wizard that could have formed it, no other smith that could have welded its parts together or forged its lid of many colors. 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 prag
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 54

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“In all the world there is no other wizard that could have formed it, no other smith that could have welded its parts together or forged its lid of many colors.

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**What happens:** be, form, weld, forge · **To what, where:** other wizard, other smith, lid

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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:pg66819:11:54
# text = “In all the world there is no other wizard that could have formed it, no other smith that could have welded its parts together or forged its lid of many colors.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	welded	weld	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	forged	forge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | no other wizard |  |  |  | no other smith *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** *in a quote* | could · perfect · passive |  | no other wizard |  |  |  | world *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **weld** *in a quote* | could · perfect |  | no other smith |  |  |  | world's parts *obj*; together *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary part=Patient |
| 4 | **forge** *in a quote* | past |  | world's lid of many colors |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Product |

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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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