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title: It was not that which the Smith had hoped to see, for the ill-workin… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not that which the Smith had hoped to see, for the ill-working serving-men had broken the spells that he was weaving. Who acts: ill working serving men, spells. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 81

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It was not that which the Smith had hoped to see, for the ill-working serving-men had broken the spells that he was weaving.

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**Who acts:** ill working serving men, spells · **What happens:** not hope, see, work, break, weave · **To what, where:** vapor, spells · **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 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 (ill working serving men, spells), 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:pg66819:31:81
# text = It was not that which the Smith had hoped to see, for the ill-working serving-men had broken the spells that he was weaving.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hoped	hope	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
15	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
18	serving	serving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hope** | past · perfect · passive |  | vapor |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass*; the Smith *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **break** | past · perfect | the ill working serving men | the spells |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient |
| 5 | **weave** | past · progressive | the spells |  |  |  |  | man *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: 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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