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title: Then he raked the coals from his forge; he laid his hammer down in i… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he raked the coals from his forge; he laid his hammer down in its place beside the anvil; he took off his leather apron and hung it on a peg; he went out of his smithy and closed the door behind him. Who acts: master. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, T
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 95

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Then he raked the coals from his forge; he laid his hammer down in its place beside the anvil; he took off his leather apron and hung it on a peg; he went out of his smithy and closed the door behind him.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** rake, lay down, take off, hang, go out, close · **To what, where:** coals, forge, hammer, place, leather apron, apron

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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 (master), 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:pg66819:20:95
# text = Then he raked the coals from his forge; he laid his hammer down in its place beside the anvil; he took off his leather apron and hung it on a peg; he went out of his smithy and closed the door behind him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raked	rake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	forge	forge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	peg	peg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rake** | past | master | the coals |  | master's forge | then |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent coal=Theme from forge=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lay down** | past | master | master's hammer |  | hammer's place beside the anvil |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme in place=Destination |
| 3 | **take off** | past | master | master's leather apron |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apron=Theme |
| 4 | **hang** | past | master *not said here* | apron |  | a peg |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on peg=Destination |
| 5 | **go out** | past | master | master's smithy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **close** | past | master *not said here* | the door |  |  |  | behind master | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=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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