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title: An interest in the subject being awakened, Dr. Elias Lönnrot underto… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: An interest in the subject being awakened, Dr. Elias Lönnrot undertook the task of collecting and putting into permanent form all that was best in the legendary literature of his countrymen. Who acts: interest, that. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fat
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 141

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An interest in the subject being awakened, Dr. Elias Lönnrot undertook the task of collecting and putting into permanent form all that was best in the legendary literature of his countrymen.

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**Who acts:** interest, that · **What happens:** awaken, undertake, put, be, task · **To what, where:** subject, task, legendary literature, permanent form, collecting

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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 (interest, that), 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:pg66819:38:141
# text = An interest in the subject being awakened, Dr. Elias Lönnrot undertook the task of collecting and putting into permanent form all that was best in the legendary literature of his countrymen.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Elias	Elias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Lönnrot	Lönnrot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	undertook	undertake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	collecting	collecting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awaken** | gerund · passive |  | the subject *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **undertake** | past | a interest in the subject | the task of collecting |  | the legendary literature of Elias's countrymen |  | Elias  Dr. *nsubj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |
| 3 | **put** | gerund | a interest in the subject *not said here* |  |  | permanent form |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **task** |  |  | collecting |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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