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title: There she imprisoned it behind nine strong doors of toughest granite… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: There she imprisoned it behind nine strong doors of toughest granite, each of which was held fast shut by nine strong locks of hardest metal. 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 pragm
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 75

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There she imprisoned it behind nine strong doors of toughest granite, each of which was held fast shut by nine strong locks of hardest metal.

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**Who acts:** matter · **What happens:** imprison, hold, shut · **To what, where:** chamber, each

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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:pg66819:11:75
# text = There she imprisoned it behind nine strong doors of toughest granite, each of which was held fast shut by nine strong locks of hardest metal.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	toughest	tough	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
18	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imprison** | past | matter | chamber |  | there |  | nine strong doors of toughest granite *obj*; behind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | past · passive |  | each |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **shut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by nine strong locks of hardest metal | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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