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title: But the hammer continued to strike, the anvil kept on singing, the f… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But the hammer continued to strike, the anvil kept on singing, the fire in the forge flamed higher, and there was no pause in the Smith’s sweet singing. Who acts: hammer, anvil, pause, Smith. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 11

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But the hammer continued to strike, the anvil kept on singing, the fire in the forge flamed higher, and there was no pause in the Smith’s sweet singing.

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**Who acts:** hammer, anvil, pause, Smith · **What happens:** continue, strike, keep, flame, be, sing · **To what, where:** anvil, singing

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hammer, anvil, pause, Smith), 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:pg66819:20:11
# text = But the hammer continued to strike, the anvil kept on singing, the fire in the forge flamed higher, and there was no pause in the Smith’s sweet singing.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forge	forge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	flamed	flame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
20	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	pause	pause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the hammer |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **strike** | to-infinitive | the hammer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | participle |  | the anvil *not said here* |  | singing |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on singing=Location |
| 4 | **flame** | past | the anvil |  |  |  |  | the fire in the forge *nsubj*; high *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | past | no pause in the Smith's sweet singing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sing** |  | the Smith |  |  |  |  |  | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=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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