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title: “You may promise the skilful smith a rare reward if he will forge th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “You may promise the skilful smith a rare reward if he will forge the Sampo for me. Who acts: You, singer. 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 156

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“You may promise the skilful smith a rare reward if he will forge the Sampo for me.

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**Who acts:** You, singer · **What happens:** promise, forge · **To what, where:** skilful smith, Sampo

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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, singer), 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:pg66819:2:156
# text = “You may promise the skilful smith a rare reward if he will forge the Sampo for me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	forge	forge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | may | You | the skilful smith |  |  |  | a rare reward *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent smith=Goal reward=Theme |
| 2 | **forge** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | singer | the Sampo |  |  |  | for the gray woman *= woman* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sampo=Product for i=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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