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title: I swore by anvil and tongs, by hammer and smoke, by forge and fire,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: I swore by anvil and tongs, by hammer and smoke, by forge and fire, that I would some day win you to be my bride. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 50

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I swore by anvil and tongs, by hammer and smoke, by forge and fire, that I would some day win you to be my bride.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** swear, win, be · **To what, where:** you, bride

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg66819:24:50
# text = I swore by anvil and tongs, by hammer and smoke, by forge and fire, that I would some day win you to be my bride.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tongs	tong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	forge	forge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past | I |  |  |  |  | by anvil and tongs; by hammer and smoke and forge and fire | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **win** | would | I *not said here* | you |  |  | day |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my bride |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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