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title: But at the entrance to the cavern the great doors were shut—nine hug… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But at the entrance to the cavern the great doors were shut—nine huge and heavy doors, and each door was made secure by nine locks of hardest metal. Who acts: great doors, nine locks. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, with its dependency tree and
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 18

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But at the entrance to the cavern the great doors were shut—nine huge and heavy doors, and each door was made secure by nine locks of hardest metal.

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**Who acts:** great doors, nine locks · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** entrance, door

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great doors, nine locks), 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:pg66819:36:18
# text = But at the entrance to the cavern the great doors were shut—nine huge and heavy doors, and each door was made secure by nine locks of hardest metal.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
15	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
25	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the great doors |  |  | the entrance to the cavern |  | nine huge doors *obl*; shut *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive | nine locks of hardest metal | each door |  |  |  | secure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |

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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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