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title: “We have heard strange stories in our country concerning the magic S… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “We have heard strange stories in our country concerning the magic Sampo and the great changes it has wrought in Pohyola. Who acts: We, great. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 41

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“We have heard strange stories in our country concerning the magic Sampo and the great changes it has wrought in Pohyola.

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**Who acts:** We, great · **What happens:** hear, concern, change, wrought · **To what, where:** strange stories, country, Minstrel, Pohyola · **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 Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, great), 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:pg66819:35:41
# text = “We have heard strange stories in our country concerning the magic Sampo and the great changes it has wrought in Pohyola.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
17	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | We | strange stories |  | our country |  | concern magic Sampo | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 2 | **concern** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **change** *in a quote* | present | the great |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wrought** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Minstrel |  | Pohyola |  |  | tree rules |

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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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