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title: When he at last, had reached the end, had recited all the proper run… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: When he at last, had reached the end, had recited all the proper runes and sayings, he stopped blowing the bellows, and with great caution stooped down and looked into the caldron. Who acts: hero. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 98

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When he at last, had reached the end, had recited all the proper runes and sayings, he stopped blowing the bellows, and with great caution stooped down and looked into the caldron.

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**Who acts:** hero · **What happens:** reach, recite, stop, blow, stoop down, look · **To what, where:** end, proper runes, bellows

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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 (hero), 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:pg66819:31:98
# text = When he at last, had reached the end, had recited all the proper runes and sayings, he stopped blowing the bellows, and with great caution stooped down and looked into the caldron.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	recited	recite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	runes	rune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sayings	saying	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bellows	bellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	caution	caution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
30	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past · perfect | hero | the end |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
| 2 | **recite** | past · perfect | hero *not said here* | all proper runes and sayings |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rune=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | past | hero |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **blow** | gerund | hero *not said here* | the bellows |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient |
| 5 | **stoop down** | participle | hero *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with great caution | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **look** | past | hero *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the caldron | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into caldron=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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