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title: Thereupon, with his sharp-edged knife he set to work to fashion from… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon, with his sharp-edged knife he set to work to fashion from the fish-bones a thing to give forth music. Who acts: Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 69

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Thereupon, with his sharp-edged knife he set to work to fashion from the fish-bones a thing to give forth music.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen · **What happens:** edge, set, work, give · **To what, where:** fish bones, music

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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 (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:pg66819:34:69
# text = Thereupon, with his sharp-edged knife he set to work to fashion from the fish-bones a thing to give forth music.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	edged	edge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **edge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | past | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  | with Wainamoinen's sharp edged knife; thereupon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen *not said here* |  |  | the fish bones |  | to fashion | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen *not said here* | music |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=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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