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title: Of a piece of cedar he made the framework; of the pike’s jawbone he… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Of a piece of cedar he made the framework; of the pike’s jawbone he made the bridge; of the pike’s sharp teeth he made the pegs to hold the harp strings. Who acts: Wainamoinen, pegs. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its dependency tree and
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 70

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Of a piece of cedar he made the framework; of the pike’s jawbone he made the bridge; of the pike’s sharp teeth he made the pegs to hold the harp strings.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen, pegs · **What happens:** make, hold · **To what, where:** framework, bridge, pegs, harp strings

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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, pegs), 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:pg66819:34:70
# text = Of a piece of cedar he made the framework; of the pike’s jawbone he made the bridge; of the pike’s sharp teeth he made the pegs to hold the harp strings.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	framework	framework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	jawbone	jawbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pegs	peg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Wainamoinen | the framework |  |  |  | of a piece of cedar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent framework=Product |
| 2 | **make** | past | Wainamoinen | the bridge |  |  |  | of the pike's jawbone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Product |
| 3 | **make** | past | Wainamoinen | the pegs |  |  |  | of the pike's sharp teeth | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** | to-infinitive | the pegs *not said here* | the harp strings |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=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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