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title: For in the places wherein it rested and took root, noble men and wom… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For in the places wherein it rested and took root, noble men and women sprang up, scholars and statesmen and skilful workers in all kinds of metals, and these were destined to rule the world. Who acts: cover, noble men. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 123

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For in the places wherein it rested and took root, noble men and women sprang up, scholars and statesmen and skilful workers in all kinds of metals, and these were destined to rule the world.

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**Who acts:** cover, noble men · **What happens:** rest, take, spring up, destine, rule · **To what, where:** root, scholars, these, world

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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 (cover, noble men), 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:pg66819:38:123
# text = For in the places wherein it rested and took root, noble men and women sprang up, scholars and statesmen and skilful workers in all kinds of metals, and these were destined to rule the world.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
5	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	statesmen	statesman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	destined	destine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | cover |  |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | cover *not said here* | root |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 3 | **spring up** | past | noble men and women | scholars and statesmen and skilful workers in all kinds of metals |  |  |  | for the places | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **destine** | past · passive |  | these |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rule** | to-infinitive |  | the world |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=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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