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title: Wainamoinen put the harp of fish-bone in his gnarly hands; he rested… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Wainamoinen put the harp of fish-bone in his gnarly hands; he rested it upon his knees; very eagerly the little fellow swept the harp strings with the tips of his long fingers. Who acts: Wainamoinen, little fellow. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kante
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 94

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Wainamoinen put the harp of fish-bone in his gnarly hands; he rested it upon his knees; very eagerly the little fellow swept the harp strings with the tips of his long fingers.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen, little fellow · **What happens:** put, rest, sweep · **To what, where:** harp, gnarly hands, knees, 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, little fellow), 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:pg66819:34:94
# text = Wainamoinen put the harp of fish-bone in his gnarly hands; he rested it upon his knees; very eagerly the little fellow swept the harp strings with the tips of his long fingers.
1	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	gnarly	gnarly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Wainamoinen | the harp of fish bone |  | Wainamoinen's gnarly hands |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent harp=Theme in hand=Destination |
| 2 | **rest** | past | Wainamoinen | harp |  | Wainamoinen's knees |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon knee=Location |
| 3 | **sweep** | past | the little fellow | the harp strings |  |  |  | with the tips of Wainamoinen's long fingers; eagerly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme string=Trajectory |

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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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