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title: It was not until about a century ago that any systematic effort was… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not until about a century ago that any systematic effort was made to give this legendary lore a permanent form by putting it into writing. Who acts: song, systematic effort. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 139

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It was not until about a century ago that any systematic effort was made to give this legendary lore a permanent form by putting it into writing.

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**Who acts:** song, systematic effort · **What happens:** not be, make, give, put · **To what, where:** systematic effort, legendary lore, song, writing

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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 (song, systematic effort), 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:pg66819:38:139
# text = It was not until about a century ago that any systematic effort was made to give this legendary lore a permanent form by putting it into writing.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	systematic	systematic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
23	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | song |  |  |  | century | ago *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | any systematic effort |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | any systematic effort *not said here* | this legendary lore |  |  |  | a permanent form *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lore=Recipient form=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | gerund | any systematic effort *not said here* | song |  | writing |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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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