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title: Can you hammer into shape a becoming lid for it—a lid of rainbow col… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Can you hammer into shape a becoming lid for it—a lid of rainbow colors?” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 130

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Can you hammer into shape a becoming lid for it—a lid of rainbow colors?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hammer · **To what, where:** becoming lid, shape

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg66819:2:130
# text = Can you hammer into shape a becoming lid for it—a lid of rainbow colors?”
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hammer	hammer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	becoming	becoming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hammer** | can | you | a becoming lid |  | shape |  | for lid; a lid of rainbow colors *obl* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lid=Material into shape=Product for it=Beneficiary |

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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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