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title: From the folk-lore tales of the runolainen and from portions of this… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: From the folk-lore tales of the runolainen and from portions of this long poem, the present weaver of tales has constructed the story of “The Sampo,” with such variations and connecting links as seemed most necessary to fit it to the tastes and requirements of modern readers. A sentence of «The Samp
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 146

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From the folk-lore tales of the runolainen and from portions of this long poem, the present weaver of tales has constructed the story of “The Sampo,” with such variations and connecting links as seemed most necessary to fit it to the tastes and requirements of modern readers.

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**What happens:** construct, connect, seem, fit, require · **To what, where:** story, lore tales, links, poem, tastes, modern readers

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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: 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:pg66819:38:146
# text = From the folk-lore tales of the runolainen and from portions of this long poem, the present weaver of tales has constructed the story of “The Sampo,” with such variations and connecting links as seemed most necessary to fit it to the tastes and requirements of modern readers.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	runolainen	runolainen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	weaver	weaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	variations	variation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
38	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
41	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	42	advmod	_	_
42	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	tastes	taste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	requirements	requirement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **construct** | present · perfect |  | the story of the Sampo |  | the lore tales |  | of the runolainen and portions of this long poem; with such variations | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent story=Result from tale=Material |
| 2 | **connect** | gerund |  | links |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent link=Patient |
| 3 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fit** | to-infinitive |  | poem |  |  |  | to the tastes and requirements of modern readers *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to taste=Goal |
| 5 | **require** |  |  | modern readers |  |  |  |  | nom requirement «cognition 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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