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title: O Maid of Beauty, it was for you that I forged the Sampo and perform… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: O Maid of Beauty, it was for you that I forged the Sampo and performed those acts of magic which no other man would dare to undertake. Who acts: kitchen, you, other man, magic. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its dependency tree and
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 21

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O Maid of Beauty, it was for you that I forged the Sampo and performed those acts of magic which no other man would dare to undertake.

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**Who acts:** kitchen, you, other man, magic · **What happens:** be, forge, perform, dare, undertake, act · **To what, where:** Sampo, acts, magic

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kitchen, you, other man, magic), 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:pg66819:12:21
# text = O Maid of Beauty, it was for you that I forged the Sampo and performed those acts of magic which no other man would dare to undertake.
1	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	2	case	_	_
2	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	forged	forge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | kitchen |  |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |
| 2 | **forge** | past | you | the Sampo |  |  |  | of Maid of Beauty; I *nsubj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=Product |
| 3 | **perform** | past | you *not said here* | that acts of magic |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme |
| 4 | **dare** | would | no other man | magic |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **undertake** | to-infinitive | no other man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **act** |  | magic |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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