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title: With much labor and care he picked them up, laying them one by one f… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With much labor and care he picked them up, laying them one by one for safe keeping in the folds of his long cloak. Who acts: treasure. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 103

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With much labor and care he picked them up, laying them one by one for safe keeping in the folds of his long cloak.

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**Who acts:** treasure · **What happens:** pick up, lay, keep · **To what, where:** labor, folds

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasure), 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:pg66819:38:103
# text = With much labor and care he picked them up, laying them one by one for safe keeping in the folds of his long cloak.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | treasure | labor |  |  |  | with much labor and care | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 2 | **lay** | gerund | treasure *not said here* | labor |  |  |  | one by one *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund | treasure *not said here* |  |  | the folds of treasure's long cloak |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in fold=Location |

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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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