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title: Through them a vast store of legends, wonder tales, songs, proverbs,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Through them a vast store of legends, wonder tales, songs, proverbs, tales of magic, etc., survived from generation to generation solely in the memories of the people. Who acts: magic. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its depende
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 138

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Through them a vast store of legends, wonder tales, songs, proverbs, tales of magic, etc., survived from generation to generation solely in the memories of the people.

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**Who acts:** magic · **What happens:** wonder, survive, tell · **To what, where:** tales, vast store, generation · **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 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 (magic), 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:pg66819:38:138
# text = Through them a vast store of legends, wonder tales, songs, proverbs, tales of magic, etc., survived from generation to generation solely in the memories of the people.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	proverbs	proverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present |  | tales and songs and proverbs and tales of magic and etc. |  | a vast store  memory of legends |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **survive** | past |  |  |  |  | from generation; to generation | in the memories of the people; solely *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in memory=Location |
| 3 | **tell** |  | magic |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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