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title: Then he saw that in one of the giant’s hands was a casket wherein we… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he saw that in one of the giant’s hands was a casket wherein were contained the magic songs of all the ages, while in the other lay the golden key to the mystic house of knowledge. Who acts: Minstrel, one, ages. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wis
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 78

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Then he saw that in one of the giant’s hands was a casket wherein were contained the magic songs of all the ages, while in the other lay the golden key to the mystic house of knowledge.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel, one, ages · **What happens:** see, be, contain, lie, sing · **To what, where:** casket, magic songs, golden key, other · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, one, ages), 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:pg66819:17:78
# text = Then he saw that in one of the giant’s hands was a casket wherein were contained the magic songs of all the ages, while in the other lay the golden key to the mystic house of knowledge.
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	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
15	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	_
30	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Minstrel |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | one of the giant's hands | a casket |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **contain** | past · passive |  | the magic songs of all ages |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: song=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | past | Minstrel *not said here* | the golden key |  | the other |  | to the mystic house of knowledge | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location key=Theme |
| 5 | **sing** |  | all ages |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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