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title: Far away in northern inlets Ilmarinen and his friend the Minstrel we… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Far away in northern inlets Ilmarinen and his friend the Minstrel were catching salmon for the winter’s store. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 1

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Far away in northern inlets Ilmarinen and his friend the Minstrel were catching salmon for the winter’s store.

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**What happens:** catch · **To what, where:** salmon

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:31:1
# text = Far away in northern inlets Ilmarinen and his friend the Minstrel were catching salmon for the winter’s store.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	inlets	inlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past · progressive |  | salmon |  |  |  | for the winter's store; away *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme for store=Beneficiary |

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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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