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title: If Iron had smitten you I would see blood trickling from your wounds… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: If Iron had smitten you I would see blood trickling from your wounds; your face would be scarlet; your hands would be crimson. Who acts: Iron, I, blood, face. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 55

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If Iron had smitten you I would see blood trickling from your wounds; your face would be scarlet; your hands would be crimson.

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**Who acts:** Iron, I, blood, face, hands, your · **What happens:** smite, see, trickle, be, wound · **To what, where:** you, blood, wounds

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iron, I, blood, face), 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:pg66819:14:55
# text = If Iron had smitten you I would see blood trickling from your wounds; your face would be scarlet; your hands would be crimson.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
9	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	trickling	trickle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	scarlet	scarlet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	crimson	crimson	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Iron | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 2 | **see** | would | I | blood |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus |
| 3 | **trickle** | gerund | blood *not said here* |  |  | your wounds |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from wound=Source |
| 4 | **is** | would | your face |  |  |  |  | scarlet *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | would | your hands |  |  |  |  | crimson *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **wound** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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