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title: Ilmarinen had bought him for a small price: two old cracked kettles,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Ilmarinen had bought him for a small price: two old cracked kettles, three broken hooks, four dull-edged scythes, and five toothless rakes. Who acts: Ilmarinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 11

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Ilmarinen had bought him for a small price: two old cracked kettles, three broken hooks, four dull-edged scythes, and five toothless rakes.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** buy, crack, break, edge · **To what, where:** slave

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. 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:pg66819:29:11
# text = Ilmarinen had bought him for a small price: two old cracked kettles, three broken hooks, four dull-edged scythes, and five toothless rakes.
1	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	kettles	kettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
20	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	edged	edge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	scythes	scythe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	toothless	toothless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	rakes	rake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past · perfect | Ilmarinen |  | slave |  |  | for a small price  two old cracked kettles and three broken hooks and four edged scythes and five toothless rakes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for price=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **crack** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **edge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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