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title: Forthwith she caused the Sampo to be taken with becoming care to a s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Forthwith she caused the Sampo to be taken with becoming care to a strong-built chamber underneath a hill of copper. Who acts: matter. 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 74

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Forthwith she caused the Sampo to be taken with becoming care to a strong-built chamber underneath a hill of copper.

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**Who acts:** matter · **What happens:** cause, take, build · **To what, where:** Sampo

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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 (matter), 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:pg66819:11:74
# text = Forthwith she caused the Sampo to be taken with becoming care to a strong-built chamber underneath a hill of copper.
1	Forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	becoming	becoming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	underneath	underneath	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | matter | the Sampo |  |  |  | forthwith *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sampo=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive · passive | matter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with becoming care; to a strong built chamber underneath a hill of copper *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: to chamber=Result |
| 3 | **build** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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