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title: “It may be so,” said Wainamoinen thoughtfully, “and yet, perhaps I,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “It may be so,” said Wainamoinen thoughtfully, “and yet, perhaps I, who am not a smith, may make something from them that will give joy to men and women.” Who acts: Smith, Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its dependency tree a
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 68

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“It may be so,” said Wainamoinen thoughtfully, “and yet, perhaps I, who am not a smith, may make something from them that will give joy to men and women.”

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**Who acts:** Smith, Wainamoinen · **What happens:** be, say, not be, make, give · **To what, where:** smith, something, joy, men · **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 Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith, Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:34:68
# text = “It may be so,” said Wainamoinen thoughtfully, “and yet, perhaps I, who am not a smith, may make something from them that will give joy to men and women.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
27	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | may | Smith |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  | thoughtfully *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a smith |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | may | Wainamoinen | something |  |  |  | from bones *= bone* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent something=Product from they=Material |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | future |  | joy | men and women |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joy=Theme to man=Recipient |

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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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