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title: Then from the forest he cut and brought together many logs of willow… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then from the forest he cut and brought together many logs of willow and white maple and mountain ash, and of these he made charcoal for his smithy. Who acts: Beauty. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 63

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Then from the forest he cut and brought together many logs of willow and white maple and mountain ash, and of these he made charcoal for his smithy.

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**Who acts:** Beauty · **What happens:** cut, bring together, make · **To what, where:** forest, many logs, charcoal

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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: who acts (Beauty), 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:pg66819:31:63
# text = Then from the forest he cut and brought together many logs of willow and white maple and mountain ash, and of these he made charcoal for his smithy.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	maple	maple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past | Beauty |  |  | the forest | then |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from forest=Location |
| 2 | **bring together** | past | Beauty *not said here* | many logs of willow and white maple and mountain ash |  |  |  | together *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent log=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | Beauty | charcoal |  |  |  | of these; for Beauty's smithy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent charcoal=Product for smithy=Asset |

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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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