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title: Ilmarinen put her off gently, kissing her on the cheek and thanking… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Ilmarinen put her off gently, kissing her on the cheek and thanking her for her words of praise. Who acts: Ilmarinen, sister. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 128

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Ilmarinen put her off gently, kissing her on the cheek and thanking her for her words of praise.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, sister · **What happens:** put off, kiss, thank, word · **To what, where:** sister, cheek, praise

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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 (Ilmarinen, sister), 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:pg66819:20:128
# text = Ilmarinen put her off gently, kissing her on the cheek and thanking her for her words of praise.
1	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	kissing	kiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put off** | past | Ilmarinen |  | sister |  |  | gently *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |
| 2 | **kiss** | gerund | Ilmarinen *not said here* | sister |  | the cheek |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | Ilmarinen *not said here* |  | sister |  |  | for sister's words of praise | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for word=Attribute |
| 4 | **word** |  | sister | praise |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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