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title: And Ilmarinen stood by his magic caldron, throwing into it great han… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ilmarinen stood by his magic caldron, throwing into it great handfuls of gold, smaller handfuls of silver, cakes of fine sugar from the red mountain-maple, honey and honeycomb, daisies, buttercups, wild flowers of every hue, and a hundred strange and potent articles the names of which I have not
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 71

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And Ilmarinen stood by his magic caldron, throwing into it great handfuls of gold, smaller handfuls of silver, cakes of fine sugar from the red mountain-maple, honey and honeycomb, daisies, buttercups, wild flowers of every hue, and a hundred strange and potent articles the names of which I have not the courage to pronounce.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, I · **What happens:** stand, throw, have, pronounce · **To what, where:** strange articles, great handfuls, caldron, courage

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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 (Ilmarinen, I), 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:pg66819:31:71
# text = And Ilmarinen stood by his magic caldron, throwing into it great handfuls of gold, smaller handfuls of silver, cakes of fine sugar from the red mountain-maple, honey and honeycomb, daisies, buttercups, wild flowers of every hue, and a hundred strange and potent articles the names of which I have not the courage to pronounce.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	handfuls	handful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	handfuls	handful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	maple	maple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	honeycomb	honeycomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	daisies	daisy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	buttercups	buttercup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
45	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	potent	potent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	conj	_	_
53	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	obl	_	_
58	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	acl:relcl	_	_
60	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	62	advmod	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
63	to	to	PART	TO	_	64	mark	_	_
64	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Ilmarinen | strange articles  the names |  |  |  | by man's magic caldron | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by caldron=Location |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund | Ilmarinen *not said here* | great handfuls of gold and smaller handfuls of silver and cakes of fine sugar |  | caldron |  | from the red mountain maple and honey and honeycomb; daisies and buttercups and wild flowers of every hue *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent handful=Theme into it=Destination from maple=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** | present | I | the courage |  |  |  | of the names | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient |
| 4 | **pronounce** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the courage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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