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title: Gradually, and by a process unknown to himself, Ilmarinen came to th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Gradually, and by a process unknown to himself, Ilmarinen came to think of her as he thought of the sun and the stars and the wonderful sea, as something mysterious, sublime, incomprehensible, which he might worship from afar but never hope to possess or understand. Who acts: Ilmarinen. A sentence o
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 21

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Gradually, and by a process unknown to himself, Ilmarinen came to think of her as he thought of the sun and the stars and the wonderful sea, as something mysterious, sublime, incomprehensible, which he might worship from afar but never hope to possess or understand.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** come, think, worship, not hope, possess, understand · **To what, where:** afar

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:13:21
# text = Gradually, and by a process unknown to himself, Ilmarinen came to think of her as he thought of the sun and the stars and the wonderful sea, as something mysterious, sublime, incomprehensible, which he might worship from afar but never hope to possess or understand.
1	Gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	ccomp	_	_
33	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	sublime	sublime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	incomprehensible	incomprehensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	worship	worship	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	parataxis	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	obl	_	_
45	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Land | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  | of the sun and the stars and the wonderful sea; something *ccomp* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **worship** | might |  |  |  | afar |  | which *nsubj*; Ilmarinen *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **hope** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **possess** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **understand** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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