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title: In the spells and songs which Wainamoinen uttered, the maker of nets… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: In the spells and songs which Wainamoinen uttered, the maker of nets had found his master; the power of magic had overcome him; naught could he do but obey the will of the mighty Minstrel. Who acts: songs, naught. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 68

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In the spells and songs which Wainamoinen uttered, the maker of nets had found his master; the power of magic had overcome him; naught could he do but obey the will of the mighty Minstrel.

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**Who acts:** songs, naught · **What happens:** utter, find, overcome, do, obey · **To what, where:** maker, spells, power, mighty Minstrel

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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 (songs, naught), 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:pg66819:15:68
# text = In the spells and songs which Wainamoinen uttered, the maker of nets had found his master; the power of magic had overcome him; naught could he do but obey the will of the mighty Minstrel.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	30	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | songs |  |  |  |  | Wainamoinen *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect · passive |  | the maker of nets |  | the spells and songs |  | Wainamoinen's master *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme master=Attribute |
| 3 | **overcome** | past · perfect · passive |  | the power of magic |  |  |  | Wainamoinen *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | could | naught |  |  |  |  | Wainamoinen *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **obey** | infinitive | naught *not said here* | the mighty Minstrel |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minstrel=Theme |

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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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