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title: Nine heavy doors shut it in, and nine locks of strongest metal make… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Nine heavy doors shut it in, and nine locks of strongest metal make each door fast and safe. Who acts: Nine heavy doors, nine locks. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 69

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Nine heavy doors shut it in, and nine locks of strongest metal make each door fast and safe.

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**Who acts:** Nine heavy doors, nine locks · **What happens:** shut in, make · **To what, where:** mill, door

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nine heavy doors, nine locks), 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:pg66819:32:69
# text = Nine heavy doors shut it in, and nine locks of strongest metal make each door fast and safe.
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut in** | past | Nine heavy doors | mill |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | nine locks of strongest metal | each door |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset door=Product |

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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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