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title: Then he thanked the earth man heartily for his counsel, and with hop… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he thanked the earth man heartily for his counsel, and with hopeful steps hastened to the smithy where Ilmarinen was toiling beside his flaming forge. Who acts: Minstrel, Ilmarinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper, with its dependenc
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 41

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Then he thanked the earth man heartily for his counsel, and with hopeful steps hastened to the smithy where Ilmarinen was toiling beside his flaming forge.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel, Ilmarinen · **What happens:** thank, hasten, toil · **To what, where:** earth man, hopeful steps, smithy, flaming forge

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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 (Minstrel, 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:pg66819:17:41
# text = Then he thanked the earth man heartily for his counsel, and with hopeful steps hastened to the smithy where Ilmarinen was toiling beside his flaming forge.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
16	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	toiling	toil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl	_	_
24	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	forge	forge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Minstrel |  | the earth man |  | then | for Minstrel's counsel; hopeful steps *parataxis*; heartily *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Theme for counsel=Attribute |
| 2 | **hasten** | participle |  | hopeful steps *not said here* |  | the smithy |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to smithy=Destination |
| 3 | **toil** | past · progressive | Ilmarinen |  |  | Minstrel's flaming forge |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside forge=Trajectory |

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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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