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title: Why did the grim Wizard of the Rock thus undo his own work? — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did the grim Wizard of the Rock thus undo his own work? Who acts: grim Wizard, wizard. 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 clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 67

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Why did the grim Wizard of the Rock thus undo his own work?

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**Who acts:** grim Wizard, wizard · **What happens:** undo, work · **To what, where:** own work

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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 (grim Wizard, wizard), 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:pg66819:15:67
# text = Why did the grim Wizard of the Rock thus undo his own work?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	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	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	undo	undo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undo** | past · do-support | the grim Wizard of the Rock | wizard's own work |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient |
| 2 | **work** |  | wizard |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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