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title: They closed the strong doors and bolted them and left the Sampo alon… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: They closed the strong doors and bolted them and left the Sampo alone in its dark prison-house; but through the key-hole of the ninth lock of the ninth door there issued a sweet delightful whirring sound as of wheels rapidly turning. Who acts: things. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the O
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 78

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They closed the strong doors and bolted them and left the Sampo alone in its dark prison-house; but through the key-hole of the ninth lock of the ninth door there issued a sweet delightful whirring sound as of wheels rapidly turning.

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**Who acts:** things · **What happens:** close, bolt, leave, issue, turn · **To what, where:** strong doors, things, Sampo, dark prison house, sweet delightful whirring sound, key hole

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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 (things), 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:pg66819:11:78
# text = They closed the strong doors and bolted them and left the Sampo alone in its dark prison-house; but through the key-hole of the ninth lock of the ninth door there issued a sweet delightful whirring sound as of wheels rapidly turning.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
36	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
38	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
39	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	whirring	whirring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	44	case	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	fixed	_	_
44	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
45	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | past | things *= thing* | the strong doors |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **bolt** | past | things *= thing* *not said here* | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | past | things *= thing* *not said here* | the Sampo |  | door's dark prison house |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sampo=Theme in house=Location |
| 4 | **issue** | past | things *= thing* *not said here* | a sweet delightful whirring sound |  | the key hole of the ninth lock of the ninth door |  | as wheels | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme |
| 5 | **turn** | gerund | things *= thing* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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