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title: “He is the prince of all smiths, and there is nothing in magic or in… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “He is the prince of all smiths, and there is nothing in magic or in smithing that he cannot do. Who acts: Ilmarinen, prince. 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 146

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“He is the prince of all smiths, and there is nothing in magic or in smithing that he cannot do.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, prince · **What happens:** be, smith, not do · **To what, where:** prince, magic

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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 (Ilmarinen, prince), 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:pg66819:2:146
# text = “He is the prince of all smiths, and there is nothing in magic or in smithing that he cannot do.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	smiths	smith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	smithing	smith	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Ilmarinen | the prince |  |  |  | of all smiths | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the prince |  |  | magic |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **smith** *in a quote* | gerund | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | can | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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