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title: Then he made a belt of hardest iron, sky-blue and brilliant, to be b… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he made a belt of hardest iron, sky-blue and brilliant, to be buckled round his waist. Who acts: smoke. 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 81

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Then he made a belt of hardest iron, sky-blue and brilliant, to be buckled round his waist.

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**Who acts:** smoke · **What happens:** make, buckle · **To what, where:** belt

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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 (smoke), 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:pg66819:24:81
# text = Then he made a belt of hardest iron, sky-blue and brilliant, to be buckled round his waist.
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	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	buckled	buckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | smoke | a belt of hardest iron |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Product |
| 2 | **buckle** | to-infinitive · passive | smoke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round smoke's waist | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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