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title: “You are a great smith and skilled in working with all sorts of meta… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “You are a great smith and skilled in working with all sorts of metals. Who acts: You. 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 62

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“You are a great smith and skilled in working with all sorts of metals.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** be, work, sort · **To what, where:** great smith, metals

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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 (You), 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:pg66819:24:62
# text = “You are a great smith and skilled in working with all sorts of metals.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	skilled	skilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | a great smith |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** *in a quote* | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with all sorts of metals | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sort=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **sort** *in a quote* |  |  | metals |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: 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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