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title: He threw both fuel and metal into his forge, and while he recited on… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He threw both fuel and metal into his forge, and while he recited one magic rune after another he thrust his long tongs into the roaring fire. Who acts: Ilmarinen. 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 prag
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 74

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He threw both fuel and metal into his forge, and while he recited one magic rune after another he thrust his long tongs into the roaring fire.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** throw, recite, thrust · **To what, where:** fuel, forge, one magic rune, long tongs, roaring fire

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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 (Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:24:74
# text = He threw both fuel and metal into his forge, and while he recited one magic rune after another he thrust his long tongs into the roaring fire.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	forge	forge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	recited	recite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rune	rune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	thrust	thrust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tongs	tong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	roaring	roaring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	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 | **throw** | past | Ilmarinen | both fuel and metal |  |  |  | into Ilmarinen's forge *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer fuel=Theme into forge=Result |
| 2 | **recite** | past | Ilmarinen | one magic rune |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rune=Theme |
| 3 | **thrust** | past | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen's long tongs |  | the roaring fire |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tong=Theme |

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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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