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title: He learned not only the three wisdom words which he had sought so ze… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He learned not only the three wisdom words which he had sought so zealously, but a thousand others of rare beauty and splendid power. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 100

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He learned not only the three wisdom words which he had sought so zealously, but a thousand others of rare beauty and splendid power.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** learn, seek · **To what, where:** three wisdom words

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg66819:17:100
# text = He learned not only the three wisdom words which he had sought so zealously, but a thousand others of rare beauty and splendid power.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	zealously	zealously	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | man | the three wisdom words |  |  |  | thousand others of rare beauty and splendid power *obl* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **seek** | past · perfect · passive |  | the three wisdom words |  |  |  | man *nsubj*; zealously *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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