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title: They talked of the storm, of their household affairs, of their child… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: They talked of the storm, of their household affairs, of their children, of Ilmarinen’s latest work in smithing; and all thoughts of the dark river and Tuoni’s kingdom were banished from their minds. Who acts: neighbor, Ilmarinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Ba
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 47

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They talked of the storm, of their household affairs, of their children, of Ilmarinen’s latest work in smithing; and all thoughts of the dark river and Tuoni’s kingdom were banished from their minds.

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**Who acts:** neighbor, Ilmarinen · **What happens:** talk, banish, work, think, mind · **To what, where:** thoughts, minds, smithing, dark river

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbor, Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:16:47
# text = They talked of the storm, of their household affairs, of their children, of Ilmarinen’s latest work in smithing; and all thoughts of the dark river and Tuoni’s kingdom were banished from their minds.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	latest	late	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	smithing	smithing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	Tuoni	Tuoni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	banished	banish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past | neighbor |  |  |  |  | of the storm; of neighbor's household affairs and neighbor's children and Ilmarinen's latest work in smithing | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **banish** | past · passive |  | all thoughts of the dark river and Tuoni's kingdom |  | neighbor's minds |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from mind=Source |
| 3 | **work** |  | Ilmarinen |  |  | smithing |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
| 4 | **think** |  |  | the dark river and Tuoni's kingdom |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **mind** |  | neighbor |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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