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title: Soon he found five horsehairs which the wild steeds of Pohyola had l… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon he found five horsehairs which the wild steeds of Pohyola had lost while pasturing there—five horsehairs, long and strong and resonant. 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 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 72

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Soon he found five horsehairs which the wild steeds of Pohyola had lost while pasturing there—five horsehairs, long and strong and resonant.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen · **What happens:** find, lose, pasture · **To what, where:** five horsehairs, wild steeds

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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:pg66819:34:72
# text = Soon he found five horsehairs which the wild steeds of Pohyola had lost while pasturing there—five horsehairs, long and strong and resonant.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	horsehairs	horsehair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pasturing	pasture	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	horsehairs	horsehair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	resonant	resonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Wainamoinen | five horsehairs |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horsehair=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wild steeds of Pohyola |  |  |  | five horsehairs *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pasture** | gerund |  | five horsehairs |  | there |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horsehair=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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