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title: So get you to your smithy, kindle the fire in your furnace so long i… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: So get you to your smithy, kindle the fire in your furnace so long idle and cold, and forge me a keen-edged sword with which to fight wild men and savage beasts.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship, with its dependency tree and
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 13

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So get you to your smithy, kindle the fire in your furnace so long idle and cold, and forge me a keen-edged sword with which to fight wild men and savage beasts.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** get, kindle, forge, edge, fight · **To what, where:** you, fire, furnace, edged sword, me, wild men

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg66819:33:13
# text = So get you to your smithy, kindle the fire in your furnace so long idle and cold, and forge me a keen-edged sword with which to fight wild men and savage beasts.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	kindle	kindle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	forge	forge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	keen	keen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	edged	edge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  | to your smithy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **kindle** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the fire |  | your furnace |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient |
| 3 | **forge** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a edged sword | me |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary sword=Product |
| 4 | **edge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | keen *compound* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fight** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | wild men and savage beasts |  |  |  | with a edged sword | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-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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