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title: On the fifth day he toiled over the upturned edges of mighty swords;… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On the fifth day he toiled over the upturned edges of mighty swords; but his gloves of copper turned them aside that they did him no harm. Who acts: planter, gloves. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 69

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On the fifth day he toiled over the upturned edges of mighty swords; but his gloves of copper turned them aside that they did him no harm.

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**Who acts:** planter, gloves · **What happens:** toil, upturn, turn, do · **To what, where:** upturned edges, swords, planter

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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 (planter, gloves), 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:pg66819:17:69
# text = On the fifth day he toiled over the upturned edges of mighty swords; but his gloves of copper turned them aside that they did him no harm.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	toiled	toil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	upturned	upturn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	aside	aside	ADP	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toil** | past | planter |  |  | the upturned edges of mighty swords | day |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over edge=Trajectory |
| 2 | **upturn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | past | planter's gloves of copper | swords *= sword* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme they=Result |
| 4 | **do** | past | gloves *= glove* | planter |  |  |  | no harm *obj* | tree rules |

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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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