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title: This wizard had but one hand, and on it were three long and crooked… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: This wizard had but one hand, and on it were three long and crooked fingers, fearful to behold, which he used in weaving nets. Who acts: wizard, hand. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 28

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This wizard had but one hand, and on it were three long and crooked fingers, fearful to behold, which he used in weaving nets.

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**Who acts:** wizard, hand · **What happens:** have, be, use · **To what, where:** one hand, three long fingers, weaving nets

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wizard, hand), 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:pg66819:15:28
# text = This wizard had but one hand, and on it were three long and crooked fingers, fearful to behold, which he used in weaving nets.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	weaving	weaving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | this wizard | one hand |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | hand |  |  | three long fingers |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | past | wizard |  |  | weaving nets |  | which *obj* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |

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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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