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title: What ails you—you, who hammered out the sky and set the stars in the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: What ails you—you, who hammered out the sky and set the stars in their places—you, the prince of wizards, the king of boasters?” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 58

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What ails you—you, who hammered out the sky and set the stars in their places—you, the prince of wizards, the king of boasters?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ail, hammer out, set · **To what, where:** you, sky, stars, places

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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 (you), 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:pg66819:12:58
# text = What ails you—you, who hammered out the sky and set the stars in their places—you, the prince of wizards, the king of boasters?”
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ails	ail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hammered	hammer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	wizards	wizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	boasters	boaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ail** | present |  | you |  |  |  | What *nsubj*; the king of boasters *parataxis* | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient you=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hammer out** | past | you | the sky |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Patient |
| 3 | **set** | past | you *not said here* | the stars |  | stars's places |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent star=Theme in place=Destination |

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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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