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title: The Smith answered her gently, politely, as men should always answer… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Smith answered her gently, politely, as men should always answer women: “Have I not forged the Sampo for you—the wondrous Sampo which you so much desired? Who acts: Smith, men. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo, with its dependen
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 88

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The Smith answered her gently, politely, as men should always answer women: “Have I not forged the Sampo for you—the wondrous Sampo which you so much desired?

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**Who acts:** Smith, men · **What happens:** answer, have, not forge, desire · **To what, where:** women, Sampo, wondrous Sampo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Smith, men), 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:pg66819:11:88
# text = The Smith answered her gently, politely, as men should always answer women: “Have I not forged the Sampo for you—the wondrous Sampo which you so much desired?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	forged	forge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	much	much	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | the Smith |  |  |  |  | gently, politely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | should | men |  | women |  |  | always *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **forge** *in a quote* | past | the Smith *= smith* | the Sampo |  |  |  | for you | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sampo=Product for you=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **desire** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | the wondrous Sampo |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass*; you *nsubj:pass* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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