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title: As fast as the Hag of the Rock spun threads of iron, wires of copper… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: As fast as the Hag of the Rock spun threads of iron, wires of copper, or coils of twisted metal, he would gather them up and intertwine them together, making a fabric both pliable and strong. Who acts: Hag. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Ro
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 29

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As fast as the Hag of the Rock spun threads of iron, wires of copper, or coils of twisted metal, he would gather them up and intertwine them together, making a fabric both pliable and strong.

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**Who acts:** Hag · **What happens:** spin, gather up, intertwine, make · **To what, where:** threads, coils, fabric

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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 (Hag), 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:pg66819:15:29
# text = As fast as the Hag of the Rock spun threads of iron, wires of copper, or coils of twisted metal, he would gather them up and intertwine them together, making a fabric both pliable and strong.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Hag	Hag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
10	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	coils	coil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	intertwine	intertwine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	together	together	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	fabric	fabric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc:preconj	_	_
38	pliable	pliable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | past | the Hag of the Rock | threads of iron and wires of copper or coils of twisted metal |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thread=Theme |
| 2 | **gather up** | would | Hag | coils *= coil* |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **intertwine** | infinitive | Hag *not said here* | coils *= coil* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | Hag *not said here* | a fabric |  |  |  | pliable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fabric=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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