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title: “I will dress it, and polish the bones, and make of it a great chair… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will dress it, and polish the bones, and make of it a great chair wherein you can sit on winter evenings, feeling yourself the queen of all that is around you.” Who acts: Ilmarinen, you, that. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, wi
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 79

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“I will dress it, and polish the bones, and make of it a great chair wherein you can sit on winter evenings, feeling yourself the queen of all that is around you.”

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, you, that · **What happens:** dress, polish, make, sit, feel, be · **To what, where:** manner, bones, great chair, yourself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, you, that), 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:pg66819:26:79
# text = “I will dress it, and polish the bones, and make of it a great chair wherein you can sit on winter evenings, feeling yourself the queen of all that is around you.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	polish	polish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
19	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	evenings	evening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	around	around	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** *in a quote* | future | Ilmarinen | manner |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **polish** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ilmarinen *not said here* | the bones |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Destination |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ilmarinen *not said here* | a great chair |  |  |  | of manner | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **sit** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  | evening | wherein *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **feel** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  | the queen of all *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme queen=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | around you | 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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