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title: The first person to attempt this was the Finnish poet, Zakris Topeli… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The first person to attempt this was the Finnish poet, Zakris Topelius, who put together and published a small volume of traditions and folk tales. Who acts: first person, Finnish poet. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its depend
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 140

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The first person to attempt this was the Finnish poet, Zakris Topelius, who put together and published a small volume of traditions and folk tales.

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**Who acts:** first person, Finnish poet · **What happens:** attempt, be, put together, publish · **To what, where:** this, Finnish poet, small volume

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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 (first person, Finnish poet), 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:pg66819:38:140
# text = The first person to attempt this was the Finnish poet, Zakris Topelius, who put together and published a small volume of traditions and folk tales.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Finnish	finnish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Zakris	Zakris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	Topelius	Topelius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	published	publish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | to-infinitive | the first person *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the first person | the Finnish poet |  |  |  | Zakris *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put together** | present | the Finnish poet |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **publish** | past | the Finnish poet *not said here* | a small volume of traditions and folk tales |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volume=Result |

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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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