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title: Ilmarinen, wondering at the might of his own invention, lifted the h… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Ilmarinen, wondering at the might of his own invention, lifted the head of the Great Pike from the ground. Who acts: Ilmarinen, Jumala. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 108

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Ilmarinen, wondering at the might of his own invention, lifted the head of the Great Pike from the ground.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, Jumala · **What happens:** wonder, lift, invent · **To what, where:** own invention, head, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, Jumala), 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:pg66819:25:108
# text = Ilmarinen, wondering at the might of his own invention, lifted the head of the Great Pike from the ground.
1	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Pike	Pike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Ilmarinen *not said here* |  |  | Jumala's own invention |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lift** | past | Ilmarinen | the head of the Great Pike |  | the ground |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme from ground=Destination |
| 3 | **invent** |  | Jumala |  |  |  |  |  | nom invention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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