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title: The prince of minstrels, Wainamoinen, has sent me to find some for t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince of minstrels, Wainamoinen, has sent me to find some for the magic vessel he is building.” Who acts: Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 76

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The prince of minstrels, Wainamoinen, has sent me to find some for the magic vessel he is building.”

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen · **What happens:** send, find, build · **To what, where:** me, some, magic vessel

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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 (Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:13:76
# text = The prince of minstrels, Wainamoinen, has sent me to find some for the magic vessel he is building.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present · perfect | Wainamoinen  the prince of minstrels | me |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen  the prince of minstrels *not said here* | some |  |  |  | for the magic vessel | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent some=Theme for vessel=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **build** | present · progressive | Wainamoinen | the magic vessel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Product |

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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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